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[quote=Anonymous]OP’s summary in 2nd paragraph sounds close to our view.  Colleagues with large families in W HS areas of MCPS (and similar areas of FCPS and APS) report that they saw consistent declines in math/reading/writing content (and also declines expectations)  from their oldest child down to the youngest during the past 15 years or so.  They saw a big shift of focus over time, towards propping up the lowest performing kids, and increasingly ignoring the kids who did barely OK or better.

They all eventually gave up on local public schools and all moved their remaining kids to private (including religious) schools.  They found that the private schools they chose had better teaching on average, more content taught each school year, and higher expectations of the students.  Private schools can vary widely.  Admissions also is hyper-competitive, partly because more and more parents are losing confidence in local public schools to teach the really essential things well.

Its really tragic that the public schools seem to have lost focus on teaching really essential things like reading, writing, addition, s7btraction, multiplication, and division.  We see that many after-school tutoring places - like Kumon, Mathnasium, RSM, AoPS - are expanding and thriving to fill all the gaps.  Economically disadvantaged kids will suffer the most, because they can’t get that after school help with fundamentals.  Sigh.[/quote]

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