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When we became parents in this country we realized that K-12 curriculum and instruction is sub par across US.  MCPS remains the better option in DMV public schools as well as DMV private schools.

We are legal immigrants who came to US with plum job offers in hand.  We realized that we were invited because of the excellent education that we got in our country of origin.  So, the last thing we wanted was to make our own kids less competitive by relying on the education that was being given to them.

We just cherry picked from MCPS magnet curriculum, TJ, Stuyvesant, Sugarland(TX), India and Singapore and supplemented ourselves at home.  My kids went to MCPS magnet programs.

I admire parents who throw money, effort, time, advocacy etc to better their children education but the truth is that the clock is ticking. Your kid is in the school system for a finite time only and you need to do whatever you can to make sure that they get a robust and well rounded education while they are under your roof.

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Parents who throw money effort time and advocacy at problems are engaged and doing what is necessary currently for their kid WHILE doing what they can to help others.

Change isn’t impossible, but it requires time, effort, advocacy, not just complaint.[/quote]

We did both. Supplemented our kids and helped other kids.  But the reality is that our efforts to bring opportunities to others found audience with only those children whose parents were already engaged in their education. It was shocking to us to see how uninterested the whole impacted communities was to bridge the achievement gap.

And there is not an achievement gap any longer.  It is now an achievement chasm.  And MCPS and BOE is only doing parlor trick with smoke and mirrors to fool people.  The anger about the achievement gap is being directed against the high achieving communities as a convenient target.  No one seem to realize that their kids future is being pissed away by MCPS and BOE.  All standards of evaluation is being obfuscated to hide how far behind the URM and low SES students are.  [/quote]

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