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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former resident.  If I were to do it again I would look where the politicians send their kids.  So look up the county council (if they have kids) etc.  You will likely find them all going to the one protected cluster -- that doesn't have any changes planned for them in the near term.  Takoma Park Middle feeding into Blair High School magnet (if you can).   It is REALLY hard to get into that program coming from another place -- remember it's a club. Overall when you talk about MCPS you have to quote Orwell: 'all pigs are equal, some pigs are more equal than others.'  [/quote]

A couple of fact checks here. First, the situation you are describing predates any of the existing council members. Some of them may not have even been born when Blair became a magnet high school. Second, there are no set-asides for the Blair magnet, which means it is equally "easy" or "hard" to get in from anywhere else. It's hard to get into the Blair magnet period. Even for Takoma Park kids.

Third, the Council is more diverse geographically than you give it credit for. Of the current members who have kids, Alboroz lives in Kensington (and graduated from Whitman), Hucker lives in Silver Spring, Jawando moved to Bethesda, Navarro lives in Silver Spring, and only Reimer lives in Takoma Park.

It's not a conspiracy. It's just that Silver Spring is about half of the county, and affordable to public servants. It's also why a lot of federal workers live there.

For the OP - where are you commuting? People will have better advice if you share your commute and your general price range. If you are just asking in general about MCPS schools, I can say I've been pretty happy with them. It's a big and frustrating system sometimes, and the current interim superintendent is in over her head, but overall my kids have received an excellent education and I'd happily move here again. [/quote]

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