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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Blair is a shit hole in the edge of PG, it will take more than importing a few hundred kids from the Bethesda/Potomac area to fix that sinking ship[/quote]
Ha, ha, ha, what  sinking ship?
Every  year Blair is getting  more NMSFs, more presidential scholars, more Intel scholars,  more academic awards  and  putting HoCo schools to shame.
But keep yapping about shit-hole and PG. You sound just like your president. [/quote]

he is your president too and lets see how good Blair's magnet does as the neighborhood continues to slip and Bethesda/Potomac Parents give up trying to follow all the new rules as the DCC tries to steer the seats to others with a lesser peer group! (Even the county calls DCC kids an unsatisfactory peer group if you read between the lines). Notices how the last 13 NMSF came form West county as did the major other Scholarship winner last year.   It isn't the local Blair kids propping up that program sweety. [/quote]
But Blair had 41 NMSF. You do the math.[/quote]

Not a Blair parent OR a W parent and I have no dog in the fight, but it is truly astounding that anyone would consider the Blair neighborhood to be in decline or consider it to be a bad school. By any objective measure, it’s one of the top schools in the area. [/quote]

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