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Your response doesn't make any sense. Of course the top students in a 50,000 student pool will beat private school kids. That doesn't tell you anything about the quality of education in MCPS versus privates.[/quote]

Why doesn't it? If the MCPS students, who are receiving an MCPS education, are beating the [Insert Name of Private School Here] students, who are receiving a [Insert Name of Private School Here] education?

If you think that you're getting your money's worth from your checks to your private school, that's great. Be happy, and please stop telling me that my kids in MCPS are getting a crummy education. I don't think they are, and I know more about my kids' education than you do.[/quote]
Because whether kids perform well on It's Academic is mostly a reflection of inherent ability that has little to do with the quality of education they are receiving. You could hand me the WISC-V scores of a bunch of 5 year olds and I could tell you which ones will be the best students in 10 years. Whether they go to MCPS or private won't fundamentally change any of that.

I know kids who have been threatened with expulsion from MCPS for consistently sleeping in class, yet they get straight As because they can just show up and ace every exam without being awake for a single second of instruction. Their performance isn't a reflection of the quality of MCPS, it's a reflection of their own abilities.

If you have data that shows that kids in the 50th percentile of MCPS beat private school kids in the 50th percentile of their class, that would be more interesting data about the two environments than whether the top kids in a 50,000 population happen to outperform the top kids in a smaller population.[/quote]

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