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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I take your point, but, really, who says DCPS is "great at the top"?  Parents are battling against some strong, entrenched currents who think eliminiating the tops eliminates the existence of a lower tier.[/quote]

A lot of Banneker, Walls, and JR parents don't care about those currents. It's all just noise. The kids have pretty good college outcomes and that's what matters.
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Amen. This board is filled with commentators who don’t have kids at the DCPS schools you mention.

Many kids in DC are average and perform to their ability but the parents don’t want to admit their kid is average so they blame the school/curriculum/other students. Tracey Flick doesn’t have an average intelligence child![/quote]

Many kids in the US are average too, as are many public schools. The vast majority of kids don’t go to Ivies—those are for the tippy top. In fact not even half of Americans go to college! Yet many of these people are nevertheless happy and successful. Classic DCUM thinking no school is good enough for their child because not enough grads go to Ivies. What a hilariously out of touch perspective. [/quote]

Out of touch, perhaps, but you surely know it's because we ourselves went to top schools and / or Ivies.  We just want to position our children, who we know to be of similar intelligence to us, to have similar opportunities.  Though, I personally, have a kid who doesn't seemed destined for that, I understand why others of my ilk would want it.  And frankly, the District of Columbia attracts a lot of smarties.  Educating their kids comes with the job of running a school district in the nation's capital of the most powerful nation in the world.  My generation of parents (raised in the 70s, Free to Be You and Me generation) highly values sending our kids to public schools.  We're sending our kids to public high schools here in higher numbers.  Judge us if you will, but  we see diversity and even being a minority as a white person as valuable, perhaps beyond even an elite education.  The question is: Will the District will decide to properly educate our kids?[/quote]

I'm going to print this out for the folder I keep for my spouse labeled "Reasons I would like to move out of the DMV as swiftly as possible." Thank you for your contribution![/quote]

Where's the lie though?[/quote]

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