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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, folks we all know It's Academic or Quizbowl is already about memorizing tons of facts and random facts. Great.

Re: K-12 education
For us it's more about the PATH than the end result. Frankly for a lot of kids in the DC area, they would end of at the same good school or legacy school regardless of private or public high school. Same for standardized test scores (AP, IB, SAT, ACT).

However, their experience the last 13 years might be vastly different.  Maybe, in addition to good test scores and college acceptance, you want your children to learn good values, how to listen/speak/discuss, find his or her passions, try out different sports or clubs, develop close relationships to teacher mentors, develop a growth mindset and love of learning. Parents have to instill that in spite of MCPS, not because of MCPS. Maybe it's different at private school, I don't know, but we are constantly trying to help our children be well-rounded despite a frantic math/reading/english curricula K-5, a total mash-up 6-8, and then pressure cooker 9-12 focused on AP tests. [/quote]

Some things we don’t like about MCPS

1) too much time spent on standardized testing
2) reading and writing skills aren’t emphasized/good 
3) kid wanted to do robotics at school but there was only space for some kids and many were left out. 
4) grade inflation 
5) math acceleration at all costs - pushed too much too soon
6) if a kid wants to do a magnet program from a W cluster they are bused away to a low socioeconomic school for all magnets.

On the plus side there are many foreign languages offered in high school. It would be great if they could start in elementary school though. [/quote]

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