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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]Massachusetts[/b] schools are light years better than the [b]MCPS[/b] W schools.  No comparison.[/quote]
Massachusetts is a STATE and MCPS is a COUNTY school district. 
If you had gone to MCPS, you would have known the difference and not make the apples to oranges comparison.[/quote]

Well dp but Mass is #1 State in the whole country for public schools

Public School Ranking by State

Overall Rank
(1 = Best) 	State	Total Score 	'Quality' Rank 	'Safety' Rank 
1	Massachusetts	71.73	1	1
2	Connecticut	66.25	2	19
3	New Jersey	65.64	3	15
4	Virginia	63.75	4	3
5	Vermont	61.64	8	4
6	New Hampshire	61.27	7	6
7	Minnesota	59.89	6	22
8	Wisconsin	59.66	5	24
9	Delaware	59.65	15	2
10	Maryland	58.51	11	9
11	Nebraska	58.42	12	8
12	New York	57.03	16	10
13	Illinois	57.03	10	28
14	North Dakota	56.76	9	34
15	Indiana	55.16	23	12
16	Kentucky	54.73	14	33
17	Colorado	54.71	17	27
18	Utah	54.71	20	18
19	Wyoming	54.45	18	29
20	Maine	54.23	24	14
21	Washington	53.99	26	5
22	Florida	53.71	19	35
23	Iowa	53.70	25	16
24	Pennsylvania	53.26	22	30
25	South Dakota	52.83	13	46
26	Montana	52.39	21	42
27	Rhode Island	51.98	29	11
28	Texas	51.79	30	13
29	Kansas	51.56	27	25
30	North Carolina	51.00	28	21
31	Hawaii	48.22	36	26
32	Ohio	48.01	33	39
33	Michigan	47.50	34	38
34	Georgia	47.45	37	36
35	Tennessee	47.11	31	45
36	Missouri	46.72	32	48
37	California	45.93	38	32
38	Idaho	45.02	35	50
39	West Virginia	43.54	45	7
40	Oregon	43.24	40	37
41	District of Columbia	42.38	41	44
42	Arkansas	41.76	39	51
43	South Carolina	41.44	42	41
44	Alabama	41.21	46	17
45	Nevada	41.02	44	40
46	Mississippi	40.94	43	43
47	Oklahoma	38.74	48	20
48	Alaska	38.60	47	23
49	Arizona	36.84	50	31
50	Louisiana	34.65	49	47
51	New Mexico	27.61	51	49

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School System Ranking (1=Best Quality)
State	Spendings Ranking	School System Ranking	Ranking
CO	30	17	Low Spending & Strong School System
AK	4	48	High Spending & Weak School System
CT	5	2	Mixed
DE	17	9	Mixed
AL	42	44	Mixed
AZ	49	49	Mixed
AR	39	42	Mixed
CA	20	37	High Spending & Weak School System
DC	3	41	High Spending & Weak School System
FL	43	22	Low Spending & Strong School System
GA	35	34	Mixed
HI	15	31	High Spending & Weak School System
ID	51	38	Mixed
IL	11	13	Mixed
IN	41	15	Low Spending & Strong School System
IA	32	23	Low Spending & Strong School System
KS	31	29	Mixed
KY	27	16	Low Spending & Strong School System
LA	28	50	Mixed
ME	18	20	Mixed
MD	16	10	Mixed
MA	6	1	Mixed
MI	37	33	Mixed
MN	19	7	Mixed
MS	47	46	Mixed
MO	33	36	Mixed
MT	29	26	Mixed
NE	26	11	Low Spending & Strong School System
NV	44	45	Mixed
NH	7	6	Mixed
NJ	2	3	Mixed
NM	34	51	Mixed
NY	1	12	Mixed
NC	40	30	Mixed
ND	13	14	Mixed
OH	24	32	High Spending & Weak School System
OK	48	47	Mixed
OR	22	40	High Spending & Weak School System
PA	9	24	Mixed
RI	10	27	High Spending & Weak School System
SC	38	43	Mixed
SD	36	25	Mixed
TN	46	35	Mixed
TX	45	28	Mixed
UT	50	18	Low Spending & Strong School System
VT	8	5	Mixed
VA	25	4	Low Spending & Strong School System
WA	14	21	Mixed
WV	21	39	High Spending & Weak School System
WI	23	8	Mixed
WY	12	19	Mixed
Note: Spendings Ranking refers to “Total Current Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Day Schools per Student” (Highest Amount = Rank 1)

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