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I agree and HGC are just a scam to increase lower performing school's grades. Your kid needs to get up earlier, deal with long commute rides to and from and not get home until after 4pm. Plus they are the outsiders of the school. Go in at 4th and never fit it in. My friend's child left mid year due to playground bullying and missing his neighborhood friends.  It isn't ideal.  But I agree that the ones who are almost at the top suffer the most.  We pulled my oldest to private school on 70% financial aid. Best thing we ever did. I wanted to believe in MCPS but after 4 years of constant decline and supplementing at home, we looked for a change and it worked. [b]I agree the gap continues to widen because the average kid's families are getting fed up and moving, leaving for private, parochial or homeschooling.[/b] [/quote]

And you have enrollment data to support this, right? Enrollment at MCPS is dropping? Enrollment in private schools in the area is booming?[/quote]
MCPS enrollment will never drop because they build more homes, condos, townhouses and apartments to overcrowd the schools every year. But yes homeschooling has gone up the last 10 years and all the privates have massive wait lists. Not sure about parochial. [/quote

Right - I am among the countless middle class families that finally gave up on MCPS.  Most of my neighbors went parochial.  For every one of our children that left the system, I'm sure they were replaced by children in the neighboring apartment complex.  Enrollment is certainly going up, but at least where I'm from, middle class participation is on the decline.  That may not be the case in the green zone, but things are getting bad enough in certain parts of the red zone.  I may not have hard data, but I've seen it in action.  MCPS turns a blind eye to this trend.  Caring about what will bring middle class families back to declining red zone schools should be part of their plan, but it's not.  I think MCPS has lost its way.[/quote].

+1   The sad part about this is the middle class pay the most in taxes towards education. [/quote]

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