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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a college kid and a high schooler who spent the majority of their school career in MCPS.

MCPS is one of the best public school systems in the country, mostly because it has a wide array of academic offerings, provides services and accommodations and magnet instruction, and gets reasonably decent scores in state and national testing.

For STEM, it's better than top privates. For Humanities and writing, it's not as good.

But parents need to understand that APs are the goal to be prepared for college and beyond. Honors is the new grade level; grade level is the new remedial; and remedial is what some kids need when they have significant disabilities, or are recovering from various setbacks in their lives.

MCPS' Achilles heel is English instruction, which needs to be entirely overhauled. The level of instruction and expectations in 9th and 10th grade "Honors" English in particular are abysmal.

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STEM is not better than the top privates, outside of maybe the magnet programs.

This is a tired stereotype. [/quote]

I have friends with kids at Sidwell, St Albans and Landon, and they are not learning anything more profound than what’s available to my kid in MCPS. She’d doing AP Physics C (mechanics and electricity & magnetism) and will have two years of math after AP Calc BC.

I KNOW privates can’t compete with MCPS in math and science. [/quote]

And private offer those courses too.

You have absolutely zero evidence that privates “can’t compete” with MCPS in math and science, especially when you take out the magnet programs.

Why on earth would thousands of parents pay for a subpar math and science curriculum? Why would any elite college accept kids out of such a school?

If what you’re saying is true, then private school college acceptances would be worse than public school, and the only kids getting in would be kids of massive donors, athletes, or legacies. [/quote]

PP you replied to. You are showing your ignorance. Sometimes parents pay for privates because they live in areas with poorly performing publics (in DC, for example). A LOT of private parents I know, with kids who are the same age as mine, were looking for things other than academics, however: they wanted to be surrounded by wealthy families, they were looking for connections and networking, for both themselves and their children, and they understand that for some careers, how you do in school matters less than who you know... and so they made the conscious decision to go private. For parents of kids in younger grades, they wanted less disruption in classrooms at the elementary level, a more "mannerly" student body, uniforms, manicured campuses. I have to say that some people I know mistake manners and appearances for "values"... which is a whole other discussion.

I live in Bethesda, where half the families send their kids to local publics and half send their kids to privates. Everyone I know can technically afford private school, so the decision is based on other criteria. None of them have ever put their kids in privates for STEM! It is universally acknowledged that this is better done in our local publics.

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