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Reg: schools, I think it is still a tough situation. I have 3 kids and we have been very lucky to have them all go through French Immersion - which goes to 8th grade. After that? It's private school. I am also not interested in sending my kids to a school where they will be pounded with religious propaganda, but I hope that my influence will be stronger... For high schools, DeMatha for boys is one of the best highschools in the counRty - not county.
For girls, I hear that Elizabeth Seton is great.
10 years ago, not sending my kids to French Immersion was not an option. Over the years, several local elementary schools have really changed: University Park has always been good, but I did not live in UP, and now, Hyattsville Elementary is also a very positive school.

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Yeah, I'm a big booster of Prince George's County and its schools.  I think they deserved their bad reputation in the past, but they really do seem to have changed for the better in the past years, esp. the elementary schools. The past superintendent Deasy made some important changes, and the new Superintendent Hite seems basically on a good track as well.

I think many elementary schools are quite acceptable.   We do have a big problem with most middle schools, though.  I know a couple of parents who have chosen the K-8 magnet programs for their kids (won the lottery) like French immersion of the Montessori schools, and aren't that thrilled with the program for their own kid -- it's good overall, just not working so well for their kid, but they are staying because there aren't very good options for middle school.

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