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Do you have kids at more than one MCPS HS?  It would be difficult to know the answer if you don't.  My kid does really well at her school..but I assume she would be run of the mill at another school..and that school would teach to a higher level than her current one.[/quote]

I don't think that would be a very good test.  I've had kids at the same middle school and they do very differently and it's not due to their 'abilities' or the curriculum.  So comparing the two of them at different HS (or all of my children) wouldn't work to compare schools.

A better test would be to know the abilities of students and send them off to different HSs.  I do know all the students that came out of the same middle school programs and then disperse all over the county. I can compare their experiences.  Most find the HS english and history to be not as engaging as their middle school program. [b] Some find RM-IBs program to be easier than their 7th grade requirements at Eastern.[/b]  But you don't hear more complaints from one HS over another.  That would appear to be a better test - everyone coming from the same MS program and we know their relative abilities and expectations.

But everyone can gather than own data on that, I suppose.  I would only push back on the assumption that just because it's a W school it is necessarily better Honors/AP courses.  That's the issue at hand - not across the curriculum but in the honors classes.   
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