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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Total agree with the post that says “not personal” because for some of us it will feel like a factory and rushed. BEFORE you jump on me - not all MCPS schools are huge. Damascus does graduation at their football field because that is what the parents want. Poolesville did theirs at Mount St Mary’s which is perfect for the Poolesville school location. Yeah we are small towns and want a smaller feel but it was taken away from us because it’s always about the bigger schools.

Totally agree about not using DAR and I agree UMBC is a good location but not for all. [/quote]

But if MCPS got a better deal by holding ALL the graduations there this year, then it frees up desperately-needed money for the rest of their long to-do list.

You seem to have forgotten that your high school is just a small part of a very large, unwieldy and impersonal school system. Everything cannot revolve around your school's needs, and believe me, coming from a very large overcrowded down-county school, everything does not revolve around my children's needs either!

This is how it is when your taxes pay for your kids' education, without an extra 60K tuition per kid out of your own pocket every year. I have friends and neighbors who pay that much to attend private school.

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Isn’t it sad that schools are built so large these days they aren’t personable? Sort of the bigger issue isn’t it? Probably the reason people go private. Wouldn’t it be nice to not just be a number on a conveyor belt and actual feel appreciated after your 13 years of hard work. Kids are literally celebrating their biggest accomplishment in their young lives.

If Damascus holds them in their football stadium, I would imagine their cost is quite low. As for Poolesville, I bet this small town would get parents or businesses to help with the cost of graduation. Those who can’t afford the high price of the majority of housing in Poolesville still manage to have their kid in the magnet program. Many of whom are from down county. Why do they pick Poolesville? Being in Poolesville is just like being in a private school. Yes I know what I’m talking about because I sent a kid through a $60k private school. Also, upcounty residents are just used to consistently getting the shaft because of the center and down county. [b]Only way to fix it is to split the county in half.[/b] [/quote]

PP you replied to. I agree with the bolded, but for the rest, I don't feel exactly that way. I am the product of 100% private schools, and we didn't have a graduation ceremony because it was in Europe and they don't have those over there. I look at the ones in the States and don't see the point of graduation ceremonies. It's hours of meaningless speeches and sitting around for one second of walking on stage to shake someone's hand. The gowns are cheap polyester. There are additional cords and medals if you did something extra. Really, none of it is important. The sense of achievement is internal, not external! In terms of teacher rapport, my kids in large MCPS high schools have had excellent teachers who saw their worth and recognized them as individuals, and terrible teachers. I had the same experience in my fancy private international school in Paris.

So, when I say "impersonal", I mean it more in an efficiency sort of way. Larger institutions are usually harder to organize. For ex: registering for courses. My youngest didn't get a class she had requested for this year because they decided to only open one classroom for it, and reserve it for 11th and 12th graders. She's a 10th grader. We had to scramble to change her schedule. This was irritating. In a better organized system, this might not have happened, maybe because they wouldn't even have allowed her to request it - but at least we'd have planned in consequence! All sorts of small irritations like that, which end up creating an additional, low-key hum of background stress.

If a split can make both halves of MCPS better organized, I'm all for it.[/quote]

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