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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Philadelphia Main Line suburbs - the school districts are outstanding there. No SD is perfect, but this is a much better fit for us. [/quote]

Are those countywide or based on the town? Any with countywide districts will have the same/similar issues.

We’ve been in mcps a long time, with several kids. The emphasis has definitely changed from meeting the needs of high performing students to meeting the needs of FARMS and ESL students. Maybe that’s about equity but I think it’s more about demographic changes and the influx of high poverty to the county.

Not sure that mcps can do anything differently as they must meet the needs of all students. And the students with the most needs are high poverty. I actually think they do a pretty good job at serving that population. It was never realistic to be able to reduce the achievement gap between wealthy high achieving students and students in poverty who don’t speak English at home. But I think mcps does a good job meeting basic needs.

They need to be honest about that though, and not pretend they are the mcps of years past.[/quote]

The new school district we are now in is on the Philadelphia main line. The district is about a tenth the size of MCPS and the teachers on average are paid about $50k more. Also they spend about $10k more per student. My special needs son got more services and a more individualized iep when we moved and my younger son also learned more at the end of the year and pushed academically. I also talked to other parents and they are overall happy w special ed here. MCPS sucks, as a product of Fairfax county public schools I hear you but the teachers although well meaning do not have the resources or bandwidth to keep up w the educational needs of the county. It may have been good years ago but sadly cannot compete with other well managed school districts across the country. [/quote]
What is the name of this utopia school district where teachers got paid on average $50k more than MCPS teachers?[/quote]

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