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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in McLean.

Those 2 FCPS pyramids look good on paper, but have good scores primarily because so many kids in those pyramids get outside school supplements such as Kumon, Mathnasium, etc.  The curriculum and teaching is the same as the rest of FCPS.

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That’s true.
We also live in McLean (Langley High). I send my kids to Basis Independent McLean. Most of their classmates live in McLean too.
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I don’t get this. Is FCPS bad? What’s wrong with the curriculum? From what I can tell all the private school parents are swallowing a load of hogwash re: superiority of curricula and just want their rich entitled kids surrounded by other privileged entitled kids. Why pretend that it’s about more than that?[/quote]

These posts always seem to turn into this. There is nothing wrong with FCPS. There's nothing wrong with Potomac. But - again, having had kids at both in the most advanced tracks - the expectations, level of the curricula, grading, and instruction are more rigorous at Potomac. That might make Potomac better for some kids and Langley better for other kids. No bad choice, but they are certainly not the same.

And frankly, pretending private school has the monopoly on rich, entitled parents is downright ridiculous when put in the context of the very similar parent population at Langley High School. McLean and Great Falls parents claiming the moral high ground under the delusion that their kids are being exposed to socioeconomic or racial diversity at that school is laughable.  [/quote]

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