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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think leaving FCPS for greener pastures will often come with trade offs.  Yes there is a lot of bureaucracy here, it's rather impersonal and depending on where you fall on the spectrum, you may not like the local politics that bleeds into the school system.

However, the amount of resources that is poured into the school system here is not matched in many other places outside of this area.

I am from a moderately sized, solidly MC/UMC town in PA. My mother was a school teacher and my father was an administrator.  As a student, I was on a first name basis with more than half of our school board members and two of them were parents of good friends of mine.  It was a very comfortable educational environment.

Many of my friends still live there and their kids go to the same high school we went to.  They cannot even begin to grasp the amount of opportunities that are afforded to my kids through FCPS that they can't even come close to providing to their students.

The environment here is way more intense and competitive, but if your kids can make it through FCPS, they will go out in the world way more prepared for success and armed with a better skill set than many other students across the country.

So, maybe FCPS sucks.  But maybe the suck carries with it higher levels of resources and opportunity.  And in other places, it sucks less, but so are the resources and opportunities.

Everything's a tradeoff.[/quote]

Simply spending more doesn't equal quality.  What are some specific opportunities that your kids have that you think others don't have?[/quote]

DP, but off the top of my head - opportunity for IB diploma, the Academies, transportation to/from another school if a specific subject is not taught at your child's school (high school), legitimate arts and music from elementary through high school, recess, relationship with NoVa, opportunity to apply to the best HS in VA, and one of the best HS in the US.[/quote]

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