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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Rockville.  Life seemed simpler then which is probably a combination of me not being an adult and the lack of social media.  Outside of your immediate friends and family, you really had no idea what was going on.

I often think I’m missing something about MCPS.  So many people complain about the schools.  I honestly believe MCPS is doing the best they can, [b]given the resources they have, and the demographics of the county.
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Changes have to occur at the state level.  MCPS is too big to serve anyone effectively.  What a new immigrant student/family needs is vastly different from a student with two highly educated parents with high paying flexible jobs.

Overall I think MCPS is no better or worse than other large school districts in the country.  As a country, our standards have been lowered.  I had one in private that graduated this year and one in MCPS public.  I can’t say that my private school grad got a better education than my public school kid.  The environments in which the education occurred was different but the content and curriculum was about the same.  I’d like to expectations of students in MCPS increased, but again how do you hold an immigrant who doesn’t speak English to the same grammar standards as a native English speaker.

I suppose it’s me b/c most people on DCUM are dissatisfied.  But overall Im happy.  Our schools still occur 5 days a week, not 4.  MCPS offers AP classes and pays for community college if a student wishes.  Due to our location, MCPS kids have access to STEM programs at NIH and NIST.  Overall, parents are heavily involved in their students education and are often willing to share their expertise via clubs.

Yes the traffic sucks but I don’t know of any major city where this is not true.[/quote]

Isn't that the same as saying it’s pretty good at sucking.[/quote]

I think you’ll have a hard time finding a blue community that offers what MD, MoCo, and MCPS offer.  Red communities are becoming more homogenized—if you want to live in a less diverse, less tolerant, and in many cases less educated area of the country, there are plenty of places to move to.  My sister lives in Newton, Ma where schools are by towns.  Her kids are at Newton South.  There are minuses to town based education—they don’t have the vast population to create their own programming for special education.  They have higher taxes than we do.  The high number of universities in the area bring racial/geographical diversity but the kids come from highly educated families that understand the value of education.  My nephew complains that he’s been with the same kids since K and can’t wait to leave for college to meet new people.

It seems to me that the state and local government policies are not in synch with what the local school systems need to provide.

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