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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used to think like PP above. Then I moved my kids from NW to MoCo for high school after a divorce. My ex lives in Chevy Chase MD and we share custody.

What I get in MoCo that I didn't get in JKLM or at Deal, and wouldn't have had at J-R, are systemic supports, capacity and competence that exceeds that in DCPS by a country mile.

I get better tech, better guidance counselors, better trained teachers overall, a more stable teaching force, better school discipline, a much larger high-performing peer group, much better ECs across the board, more transparency and a accountability (loads), more serious AP classes, IBD classes, more classes past the AP level, more foreign languages taught better, far more flexibility in what my kid can learn, superior school leadership, better facilities across the board and less crowding.  I could go on.[/quote]

Have you read any of the MoCo parent issues? They are on fire and say something totally different. [b]Every school system is great at the top-parents make sure of that.[/b] It's the lower tier schools that tell the real story. [/quote]

DCPS isn't great, period, top, bottom or middle.  By the time we made it to 5th grade at our well-regarded and seriously high SES EotP DCPS ES were were paying almost as much for tutors as we would have paid for a basic parochial school.  We were hardly alone.  We had enough and bailed for a private.

That's, um, the real story.  [/quote]

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