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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP is an MCPS principal I gather, at a close-in school that doesn't want parental involvement unless it's stuffing folders alone in a back room.[/quote]

Nah.  I think OP tells us the truth from her first post.  She grew up in a college town where everyone was middle class and well educated, and where people weren't freaking out about education because they had the privilege of knowing that their kids were likely to be just fine, as the kids of college professors and instructors.

She's trying to recreate that, but in a very different city.

The thing she is looking for doesn't really exist here.  Maybe Takoma Park 15 years ago.  If she doesn't care about racial or socioeconomic diversity and has $1 million to throw at the problem, maybe AU Park.

But the exact thing she is looking for (Madison in the mid-80s) isn't found here.  [/quote]

Ha ha, not Madison, but good guess.  The thing is the schools actually did have social & economic diversity - rural & migrant farmworker kids.  It wasn't some kind of bubble.  [/quote]

I guess you grew up in a more racially homogeneous place and closing the gap is not in the everyday vocabulary yet. MCPS is too diverse for parents to chill.

Another feature of MCPS is the huge presence of highly-educated immigrant/foreign parents community who are used to more rigor in schools. The east Asians, Russians, etc, they brought a lot of angst because they did not think school is demanding enough.

In some ways, you might actually be better off living in Bethesda and Potomac, because if you can avoid talking to other parents, you can probably just ride on their coattail and never do any advocacy on your own. Why do you care what other parents are doing anyway?

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