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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo school have gone down the toilet because of the idiots in Takoma Park.  MoCo is still riding its reputation from the 70s and 80s when in fact the quality of schools has dramatically declined.  VA has mediocre schools unless you get into TJ.  The area in general has very mediocre schools.[/quote]

Your mediocre schools comment is definitely relative to where you're coming from - I moved to NoVA from the Midwest and the schools here are light years better - both public and private.  For my family all of it is a big step up and would hardly consider this areas public schools mediocre when in 2021 VA publics are ranked 4th nationally and MD is 10th.  God forbid you come from the south where the school systems are so much worse.  You just don't know how good it is here compared to a large part of the US.[/quote]

We moved from San Francisco to Maryland. In SF I went to a school meeting for prospective parents (because of the lottery system, schools have to woo parents to apply) and the PTA was raising money for a school nurse part-time. Don’t know about VA but since I grew up in MD attending public schools which always had that kind of staff, it shocked me. We were very pleased with our MD school until the pandemic and then due to family circumstances we ended up moving to a different state. The quality of public schools here do not have a good rep after elementary so we’ll probably have to go private. If we were still in MD we’d go public all the way to HS.[/quote]

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