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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the original poster but It's not as simple as just sending your kids to public school to make them better.  For example, my neighborhood school had 28 kids in kindergarten last year.  Am I wrong, for not wanting to enroll my child? In addition, my kid has small sensory and motor skill issues, not enough to be considered special needs or need an IEP so they need a little more one on one.  Their school now caps at 12 students.  Me as a child, I could thrive in any environment 12 kids or 25 kids! However, I know my child and they need a small learning environment. 28:1 ratio is horrible, the average will stay average, those who need a little more help, won't get it and the advance will get bored.

Anne Arundel cluster, I would go public. The Crofton/Gambrills area schools are fantastic and most have 17/18 cap on students. Big difference than PG.  Also, to put it in perspective, my 3rd grader had 31!!!! However, she could hang because she is that child that can self direct.  *just saying*[/quote]

There are no shortage of elementary schools in Bowie that outperform Crofton area elementary schools: Heather Hills, Whitehall, and Yorktown. And no, Crofton schools are very overcrowded, and the high school is projected to be over-capacity the day it starts serving all four grades. South River High School is an over-crowded zoo that serves many working-class neighborhoods in Edgewater, but I see people recommend it over Bowie all the time. It’s clearly about race.

Also, Crofton didn’t just get a new high school because they were sleeping on their asses and dodged their own public schools. They got it because of years of community involvement and commitment

. Looking at citation data, Crofton schools have numerous behavior issues as well. Crofton Middle School had 19 citations during the 2017-2018 school year. Arundel Middle School only had 6, and Central Middle School only had 4. Crofton is over-hyped because it’s a majority-white area. https://www.capitalgazette.com/education/ac-cn-meade-high-school-20190905-b5onjm2ixngddjlx75oxwx73oq-story.html[/quote]

Not facts! You are naming PGCPS TAG schools. Crofton elementary, Crofton meadows, Nantucket and Crofton woods are NOT TAG schools so you are not comparing apples to oranges. Also I relocated and my attends Nantucket and there are 5 kindergarten classes with 14-17 kids. Don’t speak of you don’t know the facts. They get another teacher when they reach a certain level so please![/quote]

Crofton sucks. It’s full of elitists who think they’re rich because they live in some ugly and old ass $500k colonial. I laugh my ass of when people from Crofton say that their high school will be the next Severna Park, and everyone in Severna Park laughs at them as well. Folks in SP are always the ones always saying “we don’t want to become another Crofton.” Crofton has some racism bc it is full of white-flight from Bowie, so I’m not surprised you’re part of that and calling PGCPS trash on here. For the record, I am also from AA County and a product of the schools, but your comments are insufferable. It’s one thing if Bowie schools didn’t work out for your child, and it’s fine to say that and switch their school if that’s the case. But it’s another thing to trash the school and entire system. Just because you had a shitty experience doesn’t mean that it would be bad for everyone. If you can shell out extra money to move to Crofton and rant on here about how PGCPS sucks, how come you couldn’t bring those issues up to board members? How come you couldn’t bring them up in the community, where apparently many people also feel the same. Crofton once suffered from overcrowded schools (and it still does at the middle school and high school level), and things only turned around because the parents there were active and involved in the community. They for decades to get a high school in Crofton, that’s why they say “years in the making.” It took advocacy to get Nantucket built as well. They didn’t do what white people in PG County do. [/quote]

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