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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]

[b]And you have enrollment data to support this, right? Enrollment at MCPS is dropping? Enrollment in private schools in the area is booming?[/quote][/b]

Overall enrollment data won't tell you this. There are new enrollments all the time. Shifting some kids to private, parochial or homeschool is a real response to schools who are not serving the needs of all the students. I'm not sure we have the data but I'm sure you don't have any to disprove it either. Others move to other school districts and I think that's the point of the article - families with children who are high performers are going to seek out another school if their original MCPS school isn't serving their needs. This is less the case with the lower performers because many of their families cannot afford to move and/or are already having their needs met so there is no point in moving. 
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