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[quote=Anonymous]I think this depends on your priorities and what you want for your children.  Many DC area schools are pressure cookers where seemingly everyone has high expectations in terms of grades, test scores, and college admission.

I think many if not most kids would be happier and less stressed in many, many other school systems around the country.  However, expectations for grades, test scores, and college admission are very different elsewhere.  Here, if your child’s SAT score is below 1250, they are a failure and you are a failure as a parent.  In many other school systems, such a SAT score is outstanding and getting into any college beyond community college is considered highly successful.

We moved from MoCo to a Dallas suburb for a three years before moving to NOVA.  There was less focus and less pressure on academics than MD/NOVA, more pressure around sports participation, and people were much more focused on superficial things like your ethnic background, appearance, house, and car.  Being distinguished academically wasn’t important to most parents.  There were parents who valued academics above all else, but it felt like this was around 10% of the parents as compared to the 70-80% here.  Academics played much less of a role in a child’s network of friends and in social circles.  Social circles were dictated in large party by money (or appearance of money) not education.[/quote]

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