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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re better off homeschooling. Anyone who thinks that the better schools in the area are unqualified for the academic prowess that is your child is bound for disappointment.  You’ll be annoyed by the school and they will bitterly dislike you. [/quote]

Try again. Homeschooling for kids that are gifted rarely works. Parents are not teachers. They are one sided as well.

All of my children were at min 4 years ahead in math from elementary school on.

MCPS did a fabulous job of educating my children. MIT, Stanford, CMU, Princeton graduates.

OP you want public school.[/quote]

MCPS today is not what is was in the past. I wish parents whose kids graduated years ago would stop saying how wonderful it is.[/quote]

+100.  MCPS was great once upon a time.  It was slowly declining but really is not the same since COVID decline. [/quote]

It is not just MCPS. Something happened to many places beyond MCPS, and this is not just "back in my day" wistful kind of talking. There are objective drops in test scores almost everywhere. I don't think it affects the very top students, but it changes the atmosphere of the classroom because the teachers must teach and grade to the mean. I pulled my student from a public school and into a rigorous private for this reason and they are being challenged again.[/quote]

+1. The workshop model of teaching popularized by Lucy Calkins and Fountas & Pinnell impacted not just language arts (though especially that). It also infected math instruction. There's tons and tons that has been written about how trends in education the past decade or so actively go counter to what neuroscience says about how kids' brains learn, but education departments at colleges and universities didn't care. It took time for all of that to really impact schools - old teachers who taught using better methods had to retire, the impact of poor elementary education had to trickle up.

Compound that with the impact of screens on attention, with the impact of distance learning on critical years in education for many kids, with the pressures that IDEA and FAPE place on a system that can't hire enough special education teachers, and with the way education is used as a political football instead of anyone doing the hard work to solve real problems, and you get a refreshed educational crisis in the public schools.

Despite all the problems in public education for decades US test scores kept rising - until they didn't.[/quote]

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