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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in MCPS. In the Whitman cluster. One in middle and one in elementary. I read this board and it does not reflect my experience at all. "MCPS" may be a mess but my local schools have been great. I think it's big county and experiences vary but I have been pleased. I've looked at privates and have decided so far to stick with the Whitman cluster. Like many PPs, I think this board skews to disgruntled/haters. Talk to people in the places you are thinking of buying to get a real sense of the experience at specific MCPS schools, not the county in general.[/quote]

The thing is... you are a parent.  You are not in the schools and frankly, don't have a way to measure the type of work that kids (including yours) are doing, and how that compares to previous years.  I am an AP teacher, and I can absolutely attest that the standards are being lowered across the board.  Just because your child receives As, and passes AP exams (for example, the AP Lit exam has been so watered down that the pass rate is now above 70%) does not mean that the education they are receiving compares well to previous generations.  Yes, I will say it again, this is a mediocre system.[/quote]
LOL.
If the standards are lowered across the board, the AP passing rate wouldn't be above 70%, which is amongst the highest in the nation. Nationally, it is about 52% passing rate.
You have no idea of what you're talking about, troll. You're not fooling anyone except the oblivious ones, right-winger.[/quote]

I know it's an inconvenient truth for the regressive when people use facts like this to poke holes in their false narrative. The truth is the county's demographics have changed but the quality of education and opportunities are as good as ever.
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Ha ha - "poke holes in their false narrative". Maybe learn something before commenting.  I was making the point that parents who point to GPA and AP scores to say that their kids are "fine," do not understand the nationwide slide in those scores, which make them an unrealistic point of comparison with their own education.

AP Literature national pass rate - "The AP English Literature score distribution has varied significantly over the past 5 years of exams. The 2022 pass rate greatly exceeded the preceding years, at 78% – an increase of 34% from 2021 – remaining high in 2023 at 77.1%."
https://apstudents.collegeboard.org/about-ap-scores/score-distributions

I was not making a point about MCPS in this instance, but AP as a whole.  However, now we can show that MCPS does score well on this exam (88% pass rate in 2022), but the fact that the national average is 78% does dampen that whole "excellent system" thing.[/quote]

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