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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So curious, as this area is recognized as a top 10 public school system in the nation.  In this climate of social change, where as diversity / inclusion / anti-privilege is more driving change, why subject yourself to the perception (whether right or wrong) of privilege, especially when AOs are now pivoting towards more socially well-rounded experiences and stories of struggle / perseverance. Is it worth the price, stress, dealing with the Jones, etc?[/quote]

Negative externalities of large 200+ school, county-level public school districts (not township public school districts)
Lack of in-person education at public schools the last two years
No discipline or behavior issues addressed at public schools
No frequent arts, PE, science, music in K-8 public schools
Too much screen time at our public schools K-8
Too many days of testing at public schools, should not be 3-6 days eaten up, just test every other year one day. Like in the 1980s. 
No books, textbooks, cursive, handwriting, foreign language in public ESs
Politics, unions and $$ kickbacks driving the curriculum purchases in this area's public schools. 
9:35am school start time is asinine. 
Public Magnet schools based 1 hour away in traffic are moot "options." Plus now selection process is race and income based, not merit or test-in. Again, politicized education options. [/quote]

Accurate list, certainly applies to our MCPS ES we had wanted our kids to go to and they never did. C2.0 and common core devalued it quite quickly.[/quote]

What is c2.o, serious question. Considering pulling my child out our overvalued private. So, torn between fcps and mcps. [/quote]

It was MCPS homemade reading and math curriculum for k-8, it lasted from 2010-2018, when a routine audit + test scores+ parent complaints + teacher complaints killed it.  It then took them 2 years to buy a real reading and math curriculum as the big bloated MCPS admin kept churning off to work at Discovery Ed and try to see MCPS and other oversized $$$billion budgeted county public schools their *new* digital science and math curricula.

I don’t know what they settled on but then Covid overlapped and since we never could get answers wtf our K kid would be taught we went private.

We’d consider returning if Covid ends and they have a k-8 curriculum that’s effective. High school there looks effective, albeit huge. [/quote]

So, if read you correctly, there is no more C2.0. And for now, you don’t know what replaced it. I’m pulling out of private middle after this school year. 
Is FCPS better, worse, or homogenous?[/quote]

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