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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread has gotten strange.  I want my kid to be well educated and kind.  Could care less if they go to Harvard.  I assume some kids from each of these HS will get into Ivys and most won’t.  That’s not my measuring stick.[/quote]
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Are there great schools in DCPS?  Sure.  Is DCPS, as a system, far less resourced and far more dysfunctional than MCPS? Also yes.  If you can afford in-bounds for JKLM, great.  If you can’t, the “lower tiers” of MCPS are generally far better than various DCPS options.  That’s part of it, too: MCPS has more options, for all kinds of things.[/quote]

OK, but things aren't this simple. Great DCPS schools don't come with the built-in administrative support that MCPS schools provide, whatever tier they're on. For example, most DCPS principals are hired on one-year contracts, three years tops. In MCPS, most principals are on five-year contracts.

No MCPS high school is at something like 175% capacity JR, not even close. That's because many by-right/neighborhood high schools in MoCo appeal to most-inboundary residents, not just one high school (JR) like in DC. Also, MCPS doesn't face competition from charters. When we had issues with bungled class assignments, mishandled AP testing, a teacher leaving mid-year and not being replaced at JR, there was essentially no recourse.

In MCPS, where my nieces and nephews attend upper-tier schools, parents can go up the chain to complain with a much higher chance of success than in DCPS. MCPS has never experienced the dysfunction of DCPS because they're in a state as much as anything else. DC is a merely a city with a high poverty rate.[/quote]

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