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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moving to the area soon and had been thinking MoCo for the schools but this forum paints a bleak picture. Would any of you prefer a VA district to MCPS?[/quote]

Don't go by DCUM. You will be better off talking to real people.[/quote]

Half the people who post here are right-wing agitators who don't even live in the area. They're whole game is to play up negative stories and create fear and doubt.  My kids are in MCPS and doing great. As long as you are an involved parent your children can do well, but if you expect the county to raise them for you probably not.[/quote]

+100 these stories are exaggerations... MCPS is doing great[/quote]

They intentionally confuse decline with changing demographics to mislead people. My kids are getting a much better education than I did 20+ years ago [b]at a W. These opportunities exist for anyone who is interested.[/b][/quote]

But do they exist for anyone who is interested, [i]anywhere they might be?[/i]  The same level of opportunities?  Is the system set up so that it wouldn't matter from an educational perspective if a family lived in Burtonsville, Takoma Park, Potomac, Barnesville or Gaithersburg?

Experience tells us this is where MCPS [i]isn't[/i] doing great.[/quote]

MCPS cannot make parents at all these schools value education. People who value education can and do go where the good schools are, often at great personal cost, and that is part of what fosters the environment which creates great schools.[/quote]

The PP said the opportunities exist for anyone who is interested.  Presumably, they meant anyone of any means, without having to move within the county to a location their family might not be able to afford (or the family would not consider a move despite the student's interest).

But your post suggests otherwise, and this local difference in curricular implementation, classes offered, etc., again, is one of the areas where MCPS is [i]not[/i] doing great.[/quote]

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