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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stay where you are and go private. Catholic schools can be great.

I’m in a Chicago North Shore suburb now but used to live in the DC area. Here, on the North Shore, each little affluent town has their own school district. Each district is small, highly resourced, and has high levels of community involvement with a student population that is ready and able to learn.

In MCPS the system is so huge and sprawling that everything is a mixed bag. Even in your top neighborhoods you have to deal with this giant centralized system that doesn’t prioritize the needs of high achieving students. It’s all about bring up the bottom. The middle schools across MCPS are like big warehouses. [/quote]

This analysis is about right, I think.  Both Fairfax County and Montgomery County have school systems that are just too large.  If they were split into several separate districts, each of those new districts would perform better.  It will not happen in my lifetime though.[/quote]

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