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Reply to "Exposing your child when you cannot live in an area with better schools"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate it just was wondering[b] what is so special in the schools that have high rankings[/b]. I was wondering foreign language exposure, etc.. I would be driving myself crazy trying to have my child in everything. Just want her to be exposed and have a chance.[/quote] It's called having parents with money. The rankings come mostly from test scores, and kids from higher SES usually have higher test scores. In MCPS, the curriculum is the same across the board, whether at a 3 school or 10 school. I'm sure there are some outstanding teachers at the 3 schools. It is really the home environment and parental expectations that impact the child's ability to learn. I'm an immigrant from a poor working class background. My parents had less than an 8th grade education when we immigrated here. But, the one thing that they instilled in us was hard work and we'd better do well in school or else type parenting.[/quote]
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