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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well regardless of how much mcps posters insult each other to defend mcps, the fact is mcps is all about "racial equity" and the "achievement gap" and gives short-shrift to education of gifted kids, high performing kids, or even a rigorous curriculum.  Compared to FCPS that is a recipe for disaster if you have intelligent and hard working but gifted kids.  Especially if these kids are of the "wrong" ethnicity. Moreover, there is a condescension and opaqueness on the part of the mcps educrats that really takes away any rational basis for planning for your child's education or experience in the system.

Overall from the parents point of view, if you are upper middle class no question FCPS is the better option.

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Curious why MCPS prestige programs destroy VA's AAP/magnets in every academic measure?[/quote]

They don't. This is another suburban myth from mcps backers who are 50 years behind in information.

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Accept it happens multiple times every year in multiple quiz bowls, math counts, intel scholarships, [b]%NMSF [/b]etc. [/quote]

Well, this one bit doesn't seem true by latest count--171/162680 for MCPs vs 254/187830 for FCPS (NMSF/Total student body--didn't have number of grads on hand).
MCPS .00105  vs FCPS .00135  Vive la difference!   And this whole discussion strikes me as fairly inane.  UMC families in MCPS and FCPS are both better served than most large public school system nationwide and the differences between them are minute.  Your children's outcomes will depend very much more on whether parents are happy where they are living, have a reasonable commute, afford their housing etc. than they will on the tiny differences between these districts.

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