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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think whether or not you like MCPS will be influenced by the capabilities of your child. If you have a very capable, off the charts type of kid, MCPS does not have a good system to teach them something. Most of the dissatisfied parents fall into this category. 
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Not my experience at all.  My off the charts kid is at public school and thriving with the challenge of AP and honors classes.  My not so off the charts kid is in private school.[/quote]

I agree with the 2nd poster.  My off the charts kid is loving MCPS with lots of individualized attention from magnet teachers.

Where I think MCPS really stinks is for kids in the 90-97 percentile, or so, and specifically in various MCPS schools that are lower performing.  These are the kids who don't get in to the magnets which only take the top 2%.  If these kids are in Whitman they will be challenged by classes that are aimed at a large body of kids in these percentiles.  I don't know if PP's happy kid is at a magnet, or at Whitman and its ilk, but I can see either scenario working out for a gifted kid.

But if a 90-97th pctile kid is in various other, lower-performing MCPS schools, you need to know that MCPS is moving away from things like tracking and these kids are going to end up in heterogeneous classes with overburdened teachers who are "supposed" to differentiate by everybody's needs.  I'm not a teacher, but let's face it, I'm pretty sure I couldn't differentiate in a class where some kids are reading way below level and other kids are doing Tolstoy, so I think this MCPS policy is totally unreasonable and unfair to kids at both the top and bottom ends of the spectrum.  These are the kids for whom I'd recommend private school.

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NP here.  I agree with your assessment of what's available for kids in the 90-97 percentile-that's where my kids fall.  They're not challenged AT ALL, but I'd be dumbfounded if they got into the GT center.  Might as well apply though.  In the meantime I have to offer some challenge at home or they would make no progress.  We do math problems and I make sure they get books from the library that are halfway challenging.[/quote]

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