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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:41 is the sole MCPS snowflake.  Ignore her she works for MCPS and is probably the poster who helped with the 2.0 curriculum which should be thrown out the window.

OP- we moved to MCPS for the schools and we're deeply disappointed too. [b]The better DC elementary schools, Arlington, Fairfax, or McLean would have been far superior choices. I've heard very good things about Howard County as well. When you look at school system we learned a hard lesson that test scores and what the system says can be very deceiving.[/b]

1. A school with great test scores can be a great school BUT if demographically that shifts significantly the high test scores simply represent the parental influences. This is very true in MCPS. [b]The school with high scores have students that would score high anyway. It is NOT the quality of the curriculum.[/b]

2. MCPS spends A LOT of time marketing itself. They play with the numbers..best in the country actually means the best compared to inner city, large urban districts. Not a big pool and a pool with far more challenges than MCPS.

3. A big red flag should have been how MCPS buses kids all over the place. 40% of kids in some schools test as gifted but there is only room for 3% in the gifted programs. This means that 37% of kids in some schools are not served by the curriculum. MCPS would love to do away with the gifted test reporting but it is a Maryland state law requirement not MCPS. [/b]Other schools offer gifted programs and curriculums in the home school to accommodate more students.

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