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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Chappaqua, where all the school districts are town-based. What it leads to is:

1. super high property taxes to pay for the administrative overhead

2. high test scores in the rich towns, and lower test scores in the poor towns.

3. because the towns are so small, i'm not aware of many magnet programs, or other things MCPS has. Chappaqua has accelerated classes for gifted kids, but I'm not aware of any whole-school magnets. You have a handful of ES's, maybe 2 MS's (one when I was there) and 1 HS. Very little choice. [/quote]

That was not my experience at all.

I went to a town based school district in NJ and we were not wealthy at all.  We had a fantastic GT program.

I’d happily give up the ‘choice’ that MCPS offers for a better-run school system.  [/quote]

I'm not talking about GT programs; like I said, Chappaqua has those. I'm talking about the whole-school magnets people love in MCPS. Chappaqua does not have those. [/quote]

The MS Magnets are completely being overhauled this year (and last), so they will no longer be as attractive as they once were.  The spots were covered because they were thought to attract the ‘best of the best’, but MCPS has done away with that and is now choosing the kids based on their performance relative to other kids in their schools.

And my town in NJ offered a GT program in every home school.  This is not currently done in MCPS.  Again, I’d take the universal offering of enrichment over the limited Magnet/CES seats MCPS offers.

Our NJ town offered as many kids as were eligible the chance for enrichment.  MCPS puts about 80 kids on the Wait List for a regional CES.[/quote]

To add to that, if our CES had about 80 kids on the Wait List, and there are 7 Regional CESs in MCPS - we're talking hundreds of kids who would benefit from enrichment through a CES, but are not being allowed access to it.  That's crazy.  It's baffling to me that a county like MCPS just leaves all this potential talent behind, instead of finding a way to create more seats.  Again, most parents would much prefer to have access to these programs for every kid who is up to the challenge.  Instead of the ridiculous 'choice' that the PP mentions.  [/quote]

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