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[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][/quote]

I keep saying this but feel like it falls on deaf ears. How is MCPS so clueless? The middle class is always the key to stability. The economy is most problematic when the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. MCPS seems to be playing along with this. Resources should be allocated to children who need it. However, when MCPS policy ignores the hard working kid who is doing well, they have changed the pace of learning. This new grading system doesn't help any either. When these kids in the middle (or upper middle) slow down to wait for those who are struggling, they either adopt a consistently lower standard or most likely - their family finds some way to get them out of that environment. The rest of the school suffers because these kids are the backbone of the school. These are kids who have the ability and the resources to do well but still need some attention from MCPS to do so. The highly gifted are swept away and the struggling kids get extra help.[b] The middle are ignored and sink to the bottom or find a way out. Everyone loses with this new trend.[/b]

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I agree with this. We wanted to like MCPS but the closer we looked the less we liked. So, in addition to paying a lot of taxes to support public schools (which I don't mind doing), we're paying tuition (albeit affordable). I think this system is living off of its reputation from the past 20 years and is in no hurry to change even though it must. [/quote]

Another poster in agreement with this.

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Gotta agree.  The more time we spent in a DCC school the less we liked MCPS and the administrators that seem to be kind of kicked off into the DCC.  The way admins assume that you must be uninformed or lacking in education to live in the DCC was the last straw.  [/quote]

Amazing how widely varied experiences in DCC can be! It is also such a huge cluster of schools so it is so hard to generalize to DCC what might be one school or one parent/admin interaction. [/quote]

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