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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think Marin schools are comparable to FCPS.  They may be the "best" in the SF area, but that's not saying much.[/quote]

It is amazing how convinced DCUM is of extreme DMV educational superiority, and yet kids from around the country seem to do just fine in college and beyond. You would think that college, med school, and law school admissions only come from kids who grew up in the DMV the way that some of you talk.

OP, I don't think you are remotely a fit for California, but understand that DCUM often sounds very provincial when it comes to discussion of education.[/quote]
The vast majority of CA kids go in state, which is great.. they have a great selection of in state univ to choose from.

I speak from experience having gone through CA public school myself and had a child go there for early ES and have friends in CA with kids in public school up to HS.   My friends/family went to great univ in CA, became doctors, engineers, etc.. Obviously, CA public school students can and do do well in life.

But public schools in general in CA are inferior to the DC area.  I knew someone who moved from NJ to CA (Peninsula) and was appalled by the "great" public schools there.

DC area is the opposite of provincial when it comes to education. Coming over from CA to the DC area, I felt provincial in my understand and expectations of public school. [/quote]

The vast majority of all kids from all states go to their local universities, so I do not think that is the apparent knock you think it is. And yes, DC people (at least on DCUM) sound extremely provincial when they talk about education. I'm sorry, but it is true. The absolute conviction they have that DC education is the best in the country is provincial. It just is. There is very little evidence to show that for all of this apparent educational superiority, DC-area kids do any better in life, but the way people talk on DCUM you'd think that kids were outside of the DMV are doomed to lives of menial labor.

You left California. Can't you see that colors your experience? As a thought exercise, what do you think many Silicon Valley residents think about education in DC? Do you think they consider it unabashedly superior the way DCUM does? Or do you think perhaps they consider DC schools to be moribund training grounds for stifling bureaucrats? Another example of perspective: we have an OP here who believes he can tell principals what to do in VA. That would not fly in CA. Is that truly educational superiority? Really?

What I am saying is that perspective matters here, and DCUM sounds provincial on education because of its absolutely unshakeable conviction of DMV education superiority even with no real evidence of lifetime superior outcomes or in the face of the fact that kids from across the country seem to do just fine. [/quote]
Most DC area parents agree that MA and NJ have the best schools districts.

Most SV residents who have never experienced schools outside of CA don't think *anything* about DC because most people in CA who have never left there don't know anything outside of CA public school system. That was me, too.  I experienced both CA and  DC area public schools. Have you?

What OP thinks they can do in CA schools is besides the point, but OP is clueless regardless.  And I wasn't knocking on in state univ at all. I went to a public univ in CA.[/quote]

You speak for “most” DC area parents now? And have you ever even been to the Bay Area? Most people there didn’t start there; the Bay Area has massive amounts of inward migration, I think population-wise more than DC. I would actually say there probably more people who have experience elsewhere in the Bay Area than in DC. So yes, there are many people in the Bay Area who could hold educated opinions on DC area education, and guess what, they might not all agree with you.

You are kind of a case in point of how DCUM sounds provincial on education. Your individual experience doesn’t actually represent the world, as it turns out. [/quote]

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