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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on your child. Any MCPS MS or HS is going to have a hard-working, high-achieving, cohort of kids. Some of those kids will be in a magnet or choice program, and some will not, but they will exist in any school.

Similarly, every school is going to have a cohort of troublemakers. At a rich school, those troublemakers are drinking and doing higher-end drugs. At a poorer school, they are vaping and smoking pot. The pool of troublemakers is probably smaller at a rich school, but it still exists.

So the question you need to figure out is whether your child is going to seek out the troublemakers. Does his ADHD present as risk-seeking and/or school avoidant?

The other thing to consider is school administration, which is typically more stable at the MS and HS levels. A good principal hiring good APs can make all the difference.

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This is actually spot on, trouble makers for the most part are kids that for some reason ( learning disability, distraction, instability or just lazy) have checked out of learning but still attend the school. Poor schools will have more of these because of increases in instabilities and lack of resources to combat some of the others but every school has some.

Most professionals think Dropout% is a good indicator of a schools climate. You want graduation % and attendance rates north of 90%. FARMs south of 20%. There are simply not many schools in the DCC like that if any. The amount of knuckle heads is really the variable because the curriculum and facilities have more in common than they have differences. [/quote]

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