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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have experience with schools in both MoCo and Nova (FFX or North Arlington)? Our experience is that Arlington has substantially declined across the board and that both districts are so huge that kids sorta sink or swim unless there is significant parental involvement. I know MoCo is huge but we are focused primarily on Silver Spring area schools for context (those higher than 6 on GS).

Should we expect the same in Maryland? Anything they do better? I assume they are more Covid maniacal than Virginia so that’s been a big reason we haven’t wanted to move previously. [/quote]

I live in MoCo (kid went to public school here) and I have relatives and friends that teach in FCPS, and have had a lot of conversations about both systems.  I also went to HS in Fairfax, so I have firsthand, albeit very dated, experience with FCPS.  I don’t think there’s a real difference in the school systems; all the complaints I hear from the FCPS teachers echo the same issues I see in MCPS. In some ways MCPS is worse; it seems to have quite a bit more grade inflation (honors classes weighted the same as AP, even though honors classes are essentially on-level classes, no +/-, very helpful rounding rules etc).  IMO, Blair is a better HS magnet than TJ is now, but that’s not relevant for the vast majority of kids.  I certainly wouldn’t move for the school system, but if living in MD makes a lot more sense for your family the school systems won’t differ much.  I will echo what others have said; the public college situation in VA is night and day better than MD.  UMD is the only really excellent public.[/quote]

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