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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my kids have long since graduated, but my answer would be atmosphere (although I only know the atmosphere at G-burg)

I had one kid at Poolesville (magnet), the other at G-burg (home school) and it was like night and day walking those schools at lunch time.  At Poolesville the kids sit in the halls doing homework together or idly chit-chatting.  At G-burg it was all out chaos, kids running, yelling and throwing balls in the hallways.[/quote]

So being HS’ers? As others have said it’s the vision of idyllic atmosphere that usually has nothing to do with reality or if kids are succeeding in the classroom. [/quote]

Well, my child at G-burg succeeded in the classroom (got As) but learned very little.  She needed to retake Algebra at MC (for no credit) even though she got an A in precalc at G-burg.  I was not happy at all with her education at G-burg, mostly because "the teachers spent more time yelling at those who interrupt, than on teaching" (my child's words when I questioned how she got A's but didn't learn anything).[/quote]

Wow, an A in precalc and had to retake Algebra. I am really thinking this is the same at my kid's school. Math is not his strong subject but he gets A's. And we are in the same region.[/quote]

yup...I wish I had known it at the time, but when your kid brings home As, you think all is well.  It wasn't until she literally failed the SAT that I realized all was not well.  I objected when they wanted her in Calc as a senior since she had As, and I asked how she could get As and fail the SAT, shoulder shrug.  They wouldn't put her back in a class where she already got an A. She ended up taking quantitative math or whatever it was called, her last year.  She actually enjoyed that class.  By then we had decided she was going to MC out of HS to catch up and eventually graduated magna cum laud from UMD.

You might say, in the long run we saved money doing 2 years of junior college first, so there's that, lol.[/quote]

The level of grade inflation in MCPS is absurd. And the way MCPS is comfortable with the wide disconnect between their classroom grades and actual grade or subject-level standards is alarming.[/quote]

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