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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Montgomery County and went through MCPS at a W school and I felt like I got a very good education. I am currently sending my kids to a very highly regarded elementary school that feeds to a W school, and I don't think the education quality is as good as when I was a kid.

The teachers give out As much more frequently now. My son gets all As and occasionally a B or two, but he tests pretty average in the MAP testing.  He never got lower than an A until 3rd grade.  I always tested extremely high in all standardized tests (like in the 90th percentile), and I never got straight As a single time during my time in MCPS, and I got a lot of Bs. Only people who were truly the smartest kids in my class got straight As.

I find the grade inflation frustrating because its hard to know what areas my son needs to work on when he is always getting good grades.  I know he struggles with certain things, like multiplication and division, but it doesn't show up in his report cards. I find I have to be very involved so I can see for myself what areas he needs work on.

So overall, yes, if I could afford a high quality private school, I would probably send them to it.  [/quote]

You hit the nail on the head.  My DD was in public school for most of elementary school.  I moved her to private school during her last year and one day she had to write an essay.  I reviewed it and was so embarrassed that that is how she wrote at the time.  Yet, she had all As in MCPS, including in English.  She was behind in many ways and is now caught up.

Also, keep in mind many private schools, including ours, use ERB testing to gauge where kids are academically.  My daughter found the ERBs tougher than MAP testing.  She scored very high on the ERB math portion but middle of the pack for Language.  However, in MCPS, she was consistently in the upper 90th percentile - i.e., 95/96%.   I will also say though that there was no "COVID slide" at our school unlike we saw with MCPS standardized testing results.  You can wholeheartedly thank MCPS for that one.[/quote]

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