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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We  live in the county in a W school district.   All we have been hearing is how great the schools are here.   Neighbors, teachers, friends have been telling us this.   Now that we are here, my husband and I look at each other and say "this is good?"   No teaching?  Packets dumped on them?  Told just to watch You Tube videos and online demonstrations?

What kind of Kool-Aid are folks drinking here?   [/quote]

They have to justify spending upwards of $1mil on a house that would barely break $400k elsewhere in MoCo. Anyone who bought in the last 15 years has been told that there’s one curriculum for the whole district and that hiring practices do not ensure the “best” teachers are clustered in any one area of the County. Therefore, people bought largely for a vanity address and some to avoid black and brown people residing on their street (unless a live-in nanny) or sitting at the desk next to Larla. But you can’t tell that to grandparents when you are asking for down payment help. You have to argue that X cluster is the only path to HYPS. That’s the Kool Aid (DCUM flavor), not anything MCPS has said. The system has never argued children in Ws or their feeders will get a better education than a child in Einstein or Springbrook’s catchments.[/quote]

So which is it?  I hear all the time that the W schools are better, and that it's unfair to the rest of the county.  They point to the test scores as an indication that the schools are better.[/quote]

They are not better. There continuing inequity in the distribution of resources for infrastructure and supplies. And some really hinky stuff is going on with grading at Churchill. However, it’s the same curriculum and the same pool of staff. No special hiring pool for Ws. Sorry![/quote]

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