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A couple people actually defined “top schools” or “top education” as the below:
"Top public schools" means educating ALL students to potential with high quality teachers, curricula, EC programs, and ability tracking. 
"Providing an effective, challenging, and engaging education for every one of our students"

By this definition and standard, NO, MCPS is not educating its top students well.  Especially if all these stay-at-home parents are home-schooling and supplementing on the side. The more MCPS lacks, the more parents who notice turn to supplementing and more ECs.  At upper levels, the honor role is half the school and they can cram well for tests that really count (ACT/SAT, AP tests), experienced teachers are good. At lower K-8 levels there are some real issues.  
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We also moved here from another top district.[/b] There, the ES curriculum was cohesive and challenging, students were engaged, there were textbooks for math, science, social studies, little reading books for reading, gym or art on alternating days and it was Common Core. ACT test-based, not parcc.  NO ONE was concerned about their bright child’s education in the classroom, no one was supplementing to fill in holes or correct bad materials or new teachers. The teachers weren’t unhappy with the system either.

Next time someone flippantly says “great schools”, ask them why or how they are defining great.  I like the above definition.  
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How big was the district, and what were the demographics of the students in the district?[/quote]

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