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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My HS Senior is a W school and there are definitely more great teachers than bad.

My kid definitely had at least one teacher that really sucked every year. Most kids in the class were struggling and the teacher just did not know how to engage with student and did not know how to reach. As a parent, that was the most frustrating thing about MCPS.

But, I will also say part of that responsibility falls on the kid. My daughter had some of the same teachers as my son. My daughter did fine, my son had some challenges.

But, in the end, he graduated with a 3.8 rigorous classes, good ECs and going to a T20 public school, not UMD. I am happy with MCPS. There are mostly great teachers who inspired my kids and took the time to write great recommendation letters.

I know others who did go to private school and ended up in T20. In my situation, I’m glad I did not have to spend the extra $400k. I’m saving that for their college and grad school. 
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I think you are better off in public for college admission as the public graduation size is much larger so colleges will take more kids in from each school.  There are teachers that are better for some kids and not others.  We were warned about a few teachers who ended up being a great fit for ours and then told to ask for other teachers who ended up being a terrible fit. In ES they sent out a survey asking basic questions for teacher but they never actually followed it.  [/quote]

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