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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PGPS is very similar to DCPS

There are very few isolated high performing school districts

The rest of the area schools generally suck.  People of means send their kids to privates

Michelle Rhee wouldn't change anything

What you need to do is have more of the people with means send their kids to the public schools

It's an SES thing that's the only way the schools will improve

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Correct. Reform the school system enough to attract the middle class.
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Then the underperforming kids will just be diluted by the middle class kids. Nothing is fixed, just hidden.[/quote]

High performing school districts don't educate their low achieving kids well either. They just have fewer of them so it looks like they are doing better.[/quote]

That's not always true, but I guess if you believe that it makes it easier to buy a big houses in a jurisdiction like PG with horrible public schools.[/quote]

Oh puh-lease.  I live in PG, and not in an area with nice schools, either.  My neighbor sent all three of her children to our crappy public schools here and guess what?  One is a cardiologist, one is an immunologist, and the third has taken his MCAT.  All three play piano and violin and did all the activities you would expect.

The family matters about a thousand times more than the school[/quote]

+1 My Fortune 500 VP is a PG county resident and public school graduate. I live and grew up here. A lot of families work hard to ensure their kids can succeed. Oh and their black (which I think is the real issue for the fears and low ratings because I've looked at test scores and there are high performing schools with low internet "rankings")[/quote]

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