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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS is highly regarded in the country and "W" cluster schools are highest performing schools within MCPS.  This is a fact.

Many people in DMV area are highly educated.  Many more are are from other countries where curriculum, rigor, expectations in top-notch schools are far above and beyond the "W" cluster schools in MCPS.  People from other countries (including me) expected that school education will be far more superior in the US than in our own home countries.  When we have found that it is not so - we have deemed MCPS to be a big fail.

The truth is that school education in the US is a big fail with a few spots of excellence here and there. This excellence has also come about with private tutoring and coaching and not with what the schools have taught.

MCPS is doing ok as compared to the rest of the nation. Private schools in US are also no better.[b] Any student who is excelling - it is because of enrichment and tutoring outside of school. 
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Yes, that's what my mother told me in the 70s and what her mother told her in the 40s.    What you teach at home matters much more than you think.   You cannot depend on a school to do all the instruction.  [/quote]

Absolutely.  And enrichment doesn't always take the form of summers in Costa Rica or involvement in the Math club.  What really makes a difference is taking ordinary stuff that comes home and enriching it.  Every teacher in the county will tell you that's what they would LOVE for every parent to do.  There's no way they can do that by themselves.  It has to be a partnership.  Along the way, you develop your child's quest for knowledge, and when they are old enough, they'll seek enrichment on their own. That is when real learning occurs.   [/quote]

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