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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, the most sought after programs like IBs or STEM magnets are available countywide![/quote]

This is great!  And these IBs -- they have the same breadth of courses and levels of implementations a available each year no matter where you go, right, so that you wouldn't be missing anything routinely available to someone at RM or BCC if you went to Springbrook?  Course catalogs from each school would show this, yes?

Wait, no?  (Thread on this a little while back.)  Oh, darn then...

That type of local difference and the failure to provide enough magnet-level programming to meet interest/capability/need (another sore spot) result in...

...wait for it...

...inequity![/quote]

I agree with this.  We’re not going to know what students would  signup to take unless we offer a bigger breadth of the MCPS catalogue for students to select from and then make some decisions.  There’s not even meaningful surveys to see what new courses students and families would like to see.  Yes some CTE or magnet courses can’t be offered everywhere, but there are many others and even some CTE/Magnet courses that can be offered in other locations.[/quote]

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