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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP all your comments seem to trash ALL the area public school systems without a lot of direct knowledge of any of them. Sure there's tons of complaining on DCUM about MCPS, FCPS, and the rest, and the class sizes are definitely larger than private. But there are great public schools in this area with tons of smart, motivated kids who get good educations and go on to very competitive colleges.

You also don't seem to understand that your kids won't have the option of paying for school with loans - there are strict limits on loans that undergrads can take out nowadays (somewhere around $5500/yr.) And at your income, your kids won't be eligible for financial aid. They can hunt for merit aid, but the top schools don't give merit. So what are you going to tell them when it's time to apply for college?[/quote]

Agreed, there are a lot of FCPS/MCPS schools, unfortunately the ones we can afford and have the programs we are interested in are untenable commutes.[/quote]

It really doesn’t sound right to me that your high school “doesn’t differentiate” until 11th grade. Aren’t there honors classes and on- grade-level classes? Even at our MCPS school that it sounds like wouldn’t impress you at all, my 10th grader has found honors and pre-IB classes challenging, plus one AP in 9th and one in 10th. What grade is your oldest actually in? It sounds like you have anxiety about a problem that is not a problem yet.[/quote]

I've been quite curious about OP's claim there is no differentiation before the IB program starts in 11th grade, so I just looked up the APS high school course options at W-L. "Intensified" English is an option in both ninth and tenth grades, which specifically notes it is "designed for the needs of gifted and advanced students" with higher expectations as preparation for the IB curriculum. so they have accelerated/honors classes but call them something different. There are also "intensified" options in math, science, and social studies. There are also AP classes offered for freshmen in social studies. OP's claim that there isn't any differentiation before the IB program simply isn't accurate. If OP is genuinely confused about this (v. deliberate misrepresenting the public option), I'd suggest looking at the actual course planning documents.[/quote]

Yeah, once she mentioned W-L I figured she had not done a lot of research. I would guess that many of the people moving to private in the last few years moved because of COVID . We all know last year was a mess and this year has different issues. I have seen reports in FCPS about kids taking classes that they were not capable of, especially in math, because of the way things were graded last year and needing to drop from AP or Honors to the next level down. I can see some honors level classes having a higher then average number of kids struggling and Teachers doing more to help those kids then they would in a normal year. That could pose a problem for kids who stayed on track last year. I know families whose kids graduated from W-L and they were very happy with their education and they landed at some really good colleges.

I think that there is more angst right now because of the COVID gap in areas. [/quote]

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