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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, my kid who got crappy education from crappy MCPS did better than your kid - 36/15 APs all 4s and 5s. What does that say about about your private school education OP? [/quote]

Um, you do realize that MCPS grade inflates though, correct?  They also offer AP’s earlier than any other district in the hope to bump their scores.

Most kids that do well in MCPS that actually do well with test taking had outside help. It isn’t like the school really was so great. No different than mine in MCPS elementary. The only kids doing well have parents supplementing at home. The rest of the kids are the bottom of the achievement gap and MCPS doesn’t have a clue how to actually teach those kids.

Why did MVPS get rid of exams again? [/quote]

I am going to clear up some misleading info here.

It is misleading to say they got rid of exams.  They went to quarter, not semester exams.  Regardless, the second quarter exams can't help but be cumulative because they build on earlier material.  This is the way I conduct my courses as a professor, as well.  We have a midterm, and then a final which is weighted toward the second half of the semester (the quarter), but obviously has to draw on earlier material.

My understanding of why there are so many APs is because we have 500-600 kids in each high school grade in each high school. Out of those huge numbers, there are going to be kids who are ready to take APs earlier.  If you have been through the high schools, you also know that AP allowances at younger grades have shrunk.

Our experience has been that the students who generally have tutors are kids who are in on-level or below.  This mirrors a post on here from not too long ago that quoted Sylvan and one other tutoring center.  A larger portion of their clients come from private schools.

Comparing the big districts to individual private schools is ridiculous anyway if only because of the relative sizes.

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Would agree with the PP on the subject of exams. I was worried about this but the quarterly big cumulative tests are quite rigorous. The biggest problem is that since there is no official final exam they often have big deadlines during exam week including papers and projects [/quote]

Not what I've been told...I have heard they are not very challenging nor cumulative at all.[/quote]
I am the person who said the quarterly big cumulative tests are rigorous and I think I might not be the best person to comment on this thread as my DS is in a MCPS magnets.  His magnet courses all have big cumulative tests every quarter that are very tough (they count for around 25% of the total grade).  The magnet classes are not easy to get As in.  Demanding projects and assignments and tough quizzes and exams.
AP classes also very often give cumulative tests every quarter.
The other classes (Honors English, Honors Foreign Language and other electives) are hit or miss.  Sometimes they do have a cumulative exam at the end of the quarter and other times they just have a bunch of quizzes.
Going back to the MCPS vs. private school debate I think it really depends on the private school.  If your kid is in one of the many parochial private schools in MCPS that does not necessarily make for a better or more rigorous education than MCPS but if your kid is going to Sidwell or GDS or NCS or StA it is a different story.
Even then, the number of NMSF from Blair, RMIB, Whitman etc tends to be higher than the number at any of these schools.
Perhaps some of the PPs who have kids at private schools can post the median SAT and ACT scores for their kid's schools.  It is just one metric but it could shed some light on this debate.[/quote]

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