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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS is better than its critics on this board allege, at least in my experience. But I wouldn't stay in the area SOLELY for MCPS. I say that as an overly degreed person who cares deeply about education despite having grown up in a small town of 10k with about 3 AP classes to its name. I have no doubt that your kids could get a great education in Dallas, or Kalamazoo, or anywhere else, as long as you seek that out for them. They can also get a great education in MCPS, but any distinctions are not worth planning your family's entire existence around. [/quote]

I agree with this, but would only point out that it is not true that kids can get a great education no matter where they live. In general a good local school system is dependent on the population placing a high value on (and therefore funding) a good education.  In many parts of the country this is simply not the situation. [/quote]
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You pay for a MoCo public education no matter where you live in the county.  [b]If you live in the Western side (like Bethesda), the houses are much more expensive (because they are in the "good school districts").  If you live in the Eastern part of the county, you pay much less for a house, but must supplement the shoddy schools if you can afford it.  Or you end up in private. [/b] Don't be fooled into thinking that the public schools are equal throughout the county.  Not true.  SO not true.  Haters gonna hate, but it's the truth.  [/quote]

15:30 here.  That is not what I meant at all.  I live in the eastern part of the county and have a HS student at Blair and a MS student at Takoma Park MS.  Both of our kids are surrounded by like-minded motivated and high-performing students and our local population places a high value on education.  The schools reflect this.  I am quite sure that my kids are receiving as good an education as the one their cousins (at Whitman and Pyle), who likewise are surrounded by people who value education, are receiving.[/quote]

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