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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Can we please have some perspective here? People on DCUM post as though MCPS were comparable to Ritchie County Public Schools.

http://www.ritchieschools.com/[/quote]

I don’t know anything about the schools in WV, but I think in general, the public school system in this country has gone downhill.  I have friends and families who have been teachers for decades and they will all tell you that our public education system is in trouble.

I am a child of immigrants and I would not be where I am if it were not for the public school system.  100%.  My parents couldn’t do anything with me, so I was dependent on fantastic teachers and a good curriculum.

I am not seeing that at my kids’ ES.  At all.  We do still have awesome teachers, but the curriculum is terrible and there are SO many gaps!  The lack of textbooks and over-reliance on Chromebooks are probably my biggest complaints.  But the lack of any organized curriculum is a huge problem.  [/quote]

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