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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in MCPS. In the Whitman cluster. One in middle and one in elementary. I read this board and it does not reflect my experience at all. "MCPS" may be a mess but my local schools have been great. I think it's big county and experiences vary but I have been pleased. I've looked at privates and have decided so far to stick with the Whitman cluster. Like many PPs, I think this board skews to disgruntled/haters. Talk to people in the places you are thinking of buying to get a real sense of the experience at specific MCPS schools, not the county in general.[/quote]

Whitman, Walter Johnson, Wootton and Churchill are the most premium clusters within our system. You're going to hear and see fewer complaints given your part of those clusters.[/quote]

You are probably right, but just as a data point I'm in Blair cluster and very happy with my kids' educations. They are in MS and HS, and learning more than the basics. Yes, it has absolutely meant staying involved in things like course selection, but the education is there if your kid wants to access it. My kids will finish HS having completed higher level math and science, taken more AP tests, and just generally received a better education than I did for sure. [/quote]

Blair is the closest thing to a W outside of the Ws. It gets more attention and resources from MCPS compared to its DCC siblings, Kennedy, Einstein, Northwood and Wheaton.

Again: The thing in MCPS is that when it's good, it's pretty good. But the volume of bad has gotten really bad, and some of that bad is starting to seep in at some W's, i.e. kid at Walter Johnson caught with a gun.

These are facts. And to discount those facts is to do yourself a disfavor.[/quote]

I'm the PP, and I think we're talking about a variety of things here. My comment was in direct response to the person who said her 11th grader hadn't learned more than the basics. Academically, I think the "good" is still very good.

In terms of safety, I don't disagree with you, but I also don't think the problem is MCPS. We are living in a terrifying era, where there are 1.2 guns for every person in America. That scares me, but it doesn't scare me MORE in Silver Spring than it does when I visit my family back home in Idaho. In fact, it probably scares me less. [/quote]

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