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[quote=Anonymous]MC is not in decline. This is imagined. It's just the victimhood ramblings of a small group who refuses to look at fact.

The schools deal with a raft of issues that didn't exist 20+ years ago; nevertheless, an excellent education can be had by any willing to put in any effort.

Most of the whinging centers on things like middle school magnet admissions where they recently instituted universal screening. This increased the applicant pool by a factor of five.   It also made selection far more competitive. In the past, this was driven by parental recommendation which was easily gamed.

This same group of parents complains about changes like the use of cohort criteria in admissions. Ironically, these parents are the first to point out that there are good and bad schools which their children benefit from. However, when the county attempts to offset admissions to account for the differences which they're also well aware these guys go nuts. Bottom line is these parents pay hundreds of thousands more so their kids can get a better education than others, but resent that the county is acknowledging this and looking at student's potential.

Further, when I compare MCPS' magnet programs to VA's AAP, there is no contest. AAP is a joke. When the children of wealthy parents don't do well on an entrance test, they simply Huffman some quack to provide an outside opinion that their kid a genius and they get into APP despite mediocre CogAT scores etc.

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