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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup, from new England and some towns had great schools because that's what the residents focused in, some had crappy schools. Fwiw the facilities and staff where I grew up (Newton MA) put ffx and MoCo to shame. Yes even at Whitman.[/quote]

Newton is like Chevy Chase wealthy, not surprising [/quote]

Yes, so the schools are like those Chevy Chase and McLean would have if the parents there weren't also subsiding the education for the kids in Wheaton and Annandale.

It's kind of bizarre how the liberals from New England seem to think that system is admirable.

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Yes, I second this. The town system seems fantastic if you're in a rich town, but many more kids live in middling or poor towns. With a county system, the rich subsidize the poor so you get less of a vicious circle where the poor stay poor.[/quote]

I agree with this too. I grew up in Fairfield County, CT and while many of the school districts are fantastic, Bridgeport, CT is a poor town (surrounded by wealthy ones) and their schools were TERRIBLE. They would have benefitted greatly from a county system.[/quote]

Is that somehow different than a Bethesda school vs. a Wheaton or poor Silver Spring school....?[/quote]

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