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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The quality of a school system generally depends on several factors.

1. Resources and funding.
2. Student population
3. Teacher pay
4. Teacher ability to focus on instruction/more freedom/morale
5. Leadership/Oversight

1. Fairfax wins. MoCo is out of money and already diverts most money toward the growing list of underperforming schools. Fairfax is in a better position, if the voters allow it, to stay funded. 
2. Fairfax- Montgomery County is getting poorer and MCPS is struggling to deal with this. There are a ridiculous number of private schools ranging from big, prestigious ones to tons of catholic and other more moderately priced privates. As MCPS declines, parents just opt out. 
3. MCPS wins. MCPS still pays better and offers better benefits so it will attractor teachers and keep existing ones even if they can't stand MCPS. 
4. Fairfax wins. MCPS is VERY toxic for teachers. Good teachers get demoralized quickly, more time is spent collecting data than grading student work, and its probably one of the worst systems in the country to work in right now.
5. Fairfax wins. I'm not saying that Fairfax has stellar leadership but MCPS has set the bar very low. MCPS is plagued with sex abuse scandals, a pattern of hiding and protecting employee abuses against kids, no discipline in the schools, dangerous facilities, discrimination investigations, sinking test scores, and a botched curriculum. There is no accountability in MCPS. Heck the principal that didn't call the police immediately when she found out one of the kids had been raped in school was simply transferred into the central office with full pay, not even a demotion. [/quote]

These are mostly your opinions otherwise please provide actual citations. In my experience having kids attend schools in both county';s MCPS did a much better job.[/quote]

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