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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is that MCPS "school A" does not necessarily equal MCPS "school B".  There are variations across the board, not just in terms of SES and racial makeup, but in terms of how the curriculum is implemented and decisions that principals and administrators make at the local level.  Don't be misguided in your assumption that because they are all MCPS schools that they are all the same.[/quote]

Can anyone elaborate on this "how the curriculum is implemented" difference? Like specifically how the curriculum is implemented differently? Because I hear people make judgments all the time about which school is better, and I never hear them say it's because school A has differentiated reading groups, etc. They talk about test scores, National Merit finalists, who goes to what colleges, etc.[/quote]

As a teacher myself, my first response to your question is that the quality of your child's teacher will greatly vary from classroom to classroom (don't even worry about from school to school).  In my experience, the most flexible, dynamic teachers who are most devoted to continuing to hone their skills themselves work in the needier, "less desirable" schools.  That is by no means a generalization, but it's been my experience, and I've worked with a lot of teachers in schools all across the county.  The reason why students in schools in more affluent areas do so well is because their parents are more likely to be highly educated, highly involved in their children's schooling, and to provide enrichment and remediation opportunities for their children outside of school.  The variance I would be concerned with as a parent would be in the quailty of the classroom teacher, not in the differences in test scores from school to school.[/quote]

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