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[quote=Anonymous]It seems so many here are unhappy with MCPS but I have a different take. I attended MCPS as did my husband in the 70s and 80s and our kids have by far had a more rigorous education. They found college easy when they arrived which shocked them as adults always implied college would be so difficult. They were well prepared. This is not to say everything was perfect. When DD went to middle school long ago she had huge gaps in her math knowledge and we had to hire tutors to fill them. That curriculum is long gone though and it was not an issue in higher level math or for #2 in later years. The biggest issue we had was a lack of accountability for special education. Services were hard to come by and not always appropriate to our kids needs.  It was always a fight. We did lots on the outside but I think you’ll find that to be a common theme in most districts. With that said, all my kids were mainstreamed and we didn’t have issues with teachers or disruptive classrooms except on a very rare occasion. We had two awful ES teachers along the way but the majority of teachers were better than ok, they were terrific. #3 is in HS and feels very safe at school and academically challenged. I think that any large school district has issues and because it’s public school it will never be an exact fit. You have to do private for that and I wish we could have afforded it. But when my friend shares about her experience with Broward Public Schools in FL or I hear from friends and family in CO, I can see MCPS is quite good by comparison. [/quote]

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