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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think lots of people who live in the DCC (where I live) often have an inflated idea of what those west county schools offer.

It's the same curriculum -- if it's unchallenging and uninspiring here, it will be the same over there.  The difference is the peer group, but is that really significant?

I fight to get my kids into magnets not because I don't want them going to school with poorer kids or kids of color, but because the MCPS curriculum and trend towards teaching to the middle isn't all that enriching.  With the magnets, teachers are more motivated (in general) and create lessons that are integrated and enriching.[/quote]'

OP here.  I fight to get my kids into magnets for the same reasons you do.  I do not believe as you do, however, that the MCPS curriculum is taught in the same way at a DCC school as it is at a western MoCo school.  DCC schools are under pressure for good test scores, and overemphasize reading and math at the expense of e.g. science and social studies.  Western MoCo, with its largely uniformly affluent population, is not under that same pressure.

I agree that the magnet classes teachers are vastly better at teaching integrated and enriching lessons - and that's because they have the freedom to do so.  [/quote]

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