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[quote=Anonymous]One note for the OP - I don't know where you are coming from, but one thing to note about Maryland is that the county-wide school districts are a mixed blessing.

On the down side, it is a huge and sometimes unresponsive bureaucracy.

Here's the good thing, though: it is all one system and one curriculum. So, when you are looking at schools, demographics and quality of administration are basically all that separates one school from the next.

Unlike the town-based schools that are common in other parts of the country, there really is very little difference between the schools. Yes, Whitman has an obscenely wealthy school foundation and Blair doesn't, but the foundation does things like throwing prom after-parties, not hiring teachers.

There are schools in "rich" neighborhoods that have crappy facilities and bad administrators, and schools in "poor" neighborhoods with fancy buildings and great folks at the top.

For that reason, there is really less variation than you would think. [/quote]

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