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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another person who moved. Great plains state.

The schools are not great. It's a short week (4 days) and there are bare bones extra sports or clubs. We pay for private and the private school, which is better but costs 20K per kid and is still not as substantively academic as FCPS. In a weird way, we miss the rigor, the culture of kids who do well because they want to be the best. Yes, we lived in a high achieving area (McLean feeder) but it really was cool when the kids had things like Science olympiad, etc. Gifted education is a joke. My kids are two years ahead in math and here would basically be your middle of the road AAP student.

I supplement heavily. We have more money to do this since it is cheaper here.

People wise, they aren't as well off and the parents are just not into academics in the way people are here. They care way more about social issues. Our city was planning on incorporating a closing system that had a lot of hispanics into our public system (which is mediocre but white). People went nuts. Like nuts, nuts nuts. They ended up turning the closing system into lottery charter schools. I think the state took over?

I do like not working anymore. I have more time to be hands on. But I wonder if the costs were worth it...my kids definitely talk fondly about elementary school and middle school. They are meh about their high schools.

I do think they will do well in college admissions. Both have high scores, good grades and we live in a state with less competition. [/quote]

Thank you for sharing your experience.  [/quote]

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