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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The school system matters, too. I have heard wonderful things about Howard County. It's budget is a more manageable $700-800 million. MCPS's operating budget is over $2 billion, I think. It's not hard to understand how it's become a more bloated, more inefficient bureaucracy.[/quote] This is really important. School systems that are smaller are so much better! Large school systems take on a monopolistic culture. They exist to serve themselves not the students. A lot of the shady crap that MCPS pulls both educationally and financially just isn't possible in a smaller system. In MCPS lower scores usually correlate with crime being in the schools. I would never trust a Silver Spring poster on this board recommending one of the schools where the police are there several times every month! In Howard if the scores aren't the top ones but there isn't the same crime going on then I would ask more parents about it and consider the school. [/quote] Howard cannot compete with MoCo. Blair alone will knock every Howard school out of the ballpark [/quote]
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