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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]
HoCo is not very diverse in terms of SES.  It's much easier to deal with smaller and less diverse SES student body.  I suppose if that's your goal (no SES diversity), then HoCo is probably your type of school district.

For us, we left a school district that was mostly upper SES (different state) because 1. there are issues in high SES schools that are unique to such schools 2. even with all that wealth, the test scores weren't all that high. [/quote]

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