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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have a relative (from a totally different area) moving outside of Frederick.  To me it is very dense cookie cutter communities plopped down in the middle of farmland.  No appeal.[/quote]

Better than paying taxes for crime and declining schools.[/quote]

MoCo schools are swirling down the toilet.[/quote]

What school district is not swirling down the toilet?  Our competitor is not Frederick County Public Schools or Howard County Public Schools, it's Fairfax County Public Schools.  They are having the same problems MCPS is having.  They are losing families to Loudoun County Public Schools.  People are just going to move to a smaller, farther (demographics get more homogeneous the farther out you go, though there is a point of diminishing returns where if you go too far out SES and QOL starts decreasing) jurisdiction.  Then that school system is going to run into similar problems eventually, rinse and repeat.  [/quote]

MoCo competes against Howard, Frederick and Fairfax and loses against all three.[/quote]

I'm not sure if that's a troll response or genuine.  Fundamentally, Howard and Frederick are both much smaller than Montgomery and Fairfax, as well as different demographically.  The school systems are on different levels in terms of resources, opportunities, and challenges based on size and demographics.  In terms of preparing students for college/work, that's mostly dependent on the SES and involvement of parents.  Support at home will allow an average student to succeed in most school systems (look into the performance of SES/racial subgroups in the less reputable schools of MCPS and FCPS).  The problems that struggling school systems face is that they cannot provide the missing support at home for an increasing population because it's impossible to replicate.  [/quote]

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