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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's truly amazing the bubble we live in here in Montgomery County when people can say the school system is "bad".  Have you people never lived anywhere else in the country?  Even if things were to truly crater here it would still be a better education than like 90% of the country.[/quote]

I think the issue is that folks are remembering THEIR high school experience, typically in an UMC highly segregated suburb of a Midwestern city. So, because this was pre social media, they knew less about what was going on even in the school they attended, AND their own experience was heavily curated/cloistered and they can't understand why they can't afford such a rarefied experience for their own kids so they blame MCPS.

[b]The actual factors are much deeper, rising income inequality, college debt, international competition that is raising the stakes for college admissions, and overall rising poverty in the United States.[/b] [/quote]

Yes, always blame someone or something else. I went to school in PG county which was as good as today’s MCPS [/quote]

lol trying to put PG down? PG is an amazing school system.[/quote]

We seriously considered living in PG County.  There are parts that are nice that we used to go to.  When we were looking it was commonly said that the areas with issues were inside the beltway and the areas outside were nicer.

But if you're willing to say that PG County as a whole doesn't have issues, that just shows how some people aren't really choosing to see what's really going on.  And the first step in fixing things is to identify the what the issue is and the cause of it.

We did decide to live in Montgomery County because the schools seemed like a safer bet.  When schools are not a factor anymore, we may end up moving there.  I tell people that you can kind of get a measure of the area based on the Costco in the area.  In Lanham/Glenarden, the people at Costco are super nice and courteous.  In my area of Montgomery County, people choose to drive past the Gaithersburg Costco to drive another half an hour or so to go to the Frederick Costco, which they say is nicer.  Same thing with people who have a choice to go between the Costco near Arundel Mills but lives by the Gaithersburg Costco.  People who regularly go to the Columbia Costco talks about what a zoo that Gaithersburg Costco is.  And personally I'd have to agree.

I think in some ways you can say say that maybe Montgomery County is going the way of Prince Georges County.  Way back before, from what we can tell Prince Georges County was more middle class and also had decent access to DC.  So had a lot of government workers living around there.

But you see how it is now and it seems like Montgomery County is heading in that direction.  One of the things is that I think Montgomery County has more affluent areas then PG County ever did.  So they will always prop up the entire school system.[/quote]

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