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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s with the silly claim that Fairfax schools are so great everywhere and are better than everywhere else?  That’s quite the generalization.  Like everywhere else, they vary.  [/quote]

I agree that, within a county, there is variation in the distribution of excellence of schools - as there is variation in any population of anything that has ever existed in human society. But we can still rank two distributions by any number of metrics that usually involve comparing the right tails, or the "best" of both distributions. Those who believe that Fairfax provides a better public education than other counties around the DMV would point to Fairfax having:

1. (One of) The highest ranked high schools in the US in TJ (regardless of the recent controversies)

[b]Rank high on papers but get bit€h-slap every by MoCo schools[/b]
 
2. Higher ranking high schools (Langley, Mclean...) in general
[b]In MoCo in general. No one outside of FFX think much about FCPS schools besides TJ[/b]

3.  The Highest average SAT scores within the top 1,3, or 5 top high schools
[b]That's in MoCo[/b]
 
4. the most National Merit scholars (by total and per capita)
[b]The most NMSF per capita is MoCo[/b]
. 
5. the most Presidential scholars
[b]MoCo[/b] 
6. the most number of HYPSM attendees
[b]MoCo[/b]

etc...

We can argue the merits of those metrics, but anyone outside the DMV might glance at those metrics and say "yeah, Fairfax schools are better, on average, than MoCo schools".  
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Fact is FCPS cannot compete with MCPS.  The score is 40-7, MCPS [/quote]

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