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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax County is very similar to MoCo in terms of population, demographics, and income level. How come FCPS does better than MCPS? It comes down to management.[/quote]
FCPS has only 2 high performing schools, McLean and Langley. MCPS has maybe 5 (Poolesville, Churchill, Wooton, WJ, Whitman, BCC) + magnet programs (Blair, RM). FCPS also has worse facilities and generally more over crowding, except Langley.

The problem for MCPS is that their lower performing schools are significantly worse than FCPS low performing schools. [/quote]

Usually the Maryland posters claim FCPS only has one high-performing high school (TJ).

In addition to TJ, Langley, and McLean, FCPS has quite a few other high-performing high schools, including Woodson, Oakton, Madison, Marshall, Chantilly, Lake Braddock, Robinson, and West Springfield.  These schools thrive despite, not because of, the central administration and the FCPS School Board, which is awful.

Agree that MCPS has better facilities (FCPS leadership is utterly incompetent when it comes to addressing overcrowding).  MCPS does have more lower performing high schools than FCPS, but I'm not sure a school like Kennedy is any better or worse than a school like Mount Vernon.

In general, it's hard to say FCPS is managed "better" than MCPS; it's just that MoCo is further along the path of indulging those who denigrate merit and chalk up every disparity to structural inequities that teachers are somehow magically called upon to fix.  It probably makes FCPS a somewhat less stressful teaching environment, but then the pay is higher in MoCo.  [/quote]

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