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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Avoid MCPS at all costs.[/quote]

OP here, circling back to this thread after I see it blew up a little--why do you say this? Is it the failures around DL?

I am hearing the exact same complaints about FCPS and APS. My older child was in a "Big 3" private for K/1st because at the time we were living in a very badly rated school district...and (to put it mildly) we weren't impressed, at all. Class content was behind his public school peers in North Arlington/FCPS. DL was a disaster last spring, and we couldn't fathom spending $45k for DL again this fall (they're not back in person, even for hybrid). We are looking forward to moving into a solid public school district for the Fall, what with the job change, etc. I tend to think a lot of public school families have a "grass is greener" attitude about privates, and, coming from the other side of the fence, it just wasn't our experience.

Honest question if this statement is just because of the way MCPS has handled DL, or if there are other issues at play? Personally, I don't know of any school or district that has handled DL well.[/quote]
Don't mind this PP. She/he is probably a private school parent or a wannabe from another jurisdiction. Since they cannot compete with MCPS, they take pleasures bashing MCPS on DCUM.[/quote]

Agreed.  I think the way they've handled DL has been atrocious, but my kids' individual teachers have been uniformly terrific, both now and in the Before Times, with one exception (and she was just meh, not punitive or anything).  Even now, I am so grateful my kids have the teachers they do--they're working SO hard remotely.  It's painful knowing what a difference they would have made in my kids' lives had they been in person, but that just is what it is.

I also think that a lot of the MCPS bashers have little context.  I used to do educational research, which meant traveling all over the Midwest and meeting with teachers who worked in everything from urban, high-crime schools to teeny-tiny rural schools with like seven kids in two combined grades, and everything in between.  [b]MCPS is better than 90% of public school districts in the country, problems aside[/b].[/quote]

Having moved here from the Northeast, this has not been our experience at all.  Massachusetts schools are light years better than the MCPS W schools.  No comparison.[/quote]

Same with CT schools.[/quote]

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