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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi OP. I live in Mt Rainier.

I want to echo that by the time your child gets to elementary/middle/high school, the landscape can change a lot.

I'm not convinced that schools in other counties are all that much better, to tell you the truth. ALL systems have their issues, and no school's a panecea (gee. I say that a lot). Test scores do not tell the whole story. Anecdotes do not tell the whole story. Structure (public/private/charter) does not tell the whole story.

If your child has involved parents and does reasonably well in a school setting, they will be OK. [/quote]

In general, I agree with this.

*But* I used to live in a rough area (not PG County), and the one thing that I think does make a difference (meaning, even if you are involved with your kid and your kid is well behaved, they won't be okay) is if there is a lot of fighting and behavioral issues.   A person I know in that area (again, not PG County) used to teach in the local schools but left because she said there was fighting on an almost daily basis and even though the kids were middle school aged, she felt like she was even physically in danger.   Personally, I think people focus too much on average test scores, but if you're kid is in an environment where there is a lot of fighting and egregious behavioral issues, I don't think that's OK.

But again, that example was not in PG County.  It is, though, the thing that concerns me most about a school.  But the problem is it's difficult to find that out about a school, so parents go with the only information they can find, which is school ratings, scores, et cetera.[/quote]

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