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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents with higher achieving students have just about had it with the dumbing down. Mcps will eventually see more and more higher achieving students pulled out. If more reasonably priced private schools or education co-ops existed,  I'd pull both of my kids out immediately. [/quote]

That's exactly why we're sending our kid to a private school this year. We can't afford the $40K/year schools without seriously jeopardizing retirement and college savings, but we can swing $25K. When we toured it, we looked at each other and said "this is a lovely school, but it almost seems like what we had in public school, with more developed science and art curricula and smaller classes." It's sad we have to shell out $25K/year to replicate that. [/quote]

It’s particularly sad because I’m from a country where the middle and upper classes really don’t get served by the public school system and so everyone pretty much pays for private.  I think it’s a crappy system because a decent education is partially why we pay so much in taxes and it used to be what was so great about America!  [/quote]

I totally agree. I grew up here, but when I was a kid no one would think of going to private school unless you had a religious reason to do so, or the kid had special needs that really couldn't be accommodated in public school. I think for us, our breaking point was realizing that, even if MCPS adopted a stellar new math and reading curriculum, there's zero indication that they're adopting one that includes proper instruction in subjects other than math and reading. Math and reading are obviously important, but how can a kid be well educated without instruction in science, history, etc.? You can't just cram that into MS and HS. [/quote]

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