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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am so effing tired of you Yankee or Midwest transplants moving here and telling us we need to run our schools the way they do in NJ/MA/IL/some other podunk state . Your way is not superior but you can move home if you think it is. [/quote]

We came from Ocinda, CA public schools.

Took one tour of a MCPS MS and an ES and got zero answers to any of our questions on curriculum, grading, school goals, etc. just a bunch of mumbo jumbo platitudes. Then realized the real priorities of MCPS had nothing to do with our kids and went private.  We couldn’t get straight answers and thus never got comfortable with the prospect of sending our kids. 
My youngest is starting K next year and think she’d be fine in MCPS if they make a well-rounded curriculum by then, that can challenge any of my kids and not need 24/7 navigating by me or my spouse.[/quote]

Oh, you again.

Comparing MCPS to Lamorinda is like comparing a Honda to a Rolls Royce. One involves a lot more money, but they both get you to the same place.

If you don't want to send your child to MCPS, then don't.[/quote]
+1  I assume that ^PP meant Orinda CA

I'm from CA, from the Bay Area, closer in than Orinda, in a small school district much like Orinda, but with more money.  It's also very white and wealthy, again, much like the area we moved from.

Orinda and the school district we moved from are tiny in comparison.  It's hard to compare.  MCPS funds more per pupil than any school in CA.   The challenges faced by districts like Orinda are very different than those faced by MCPS.

Orinda, and most of the other well off school districts in CA, rely on parent "donations" to fund things like music and art, computer programming, language courses, even AP level courses. While MCPS has issues, the course and program offerings are great.  And let's not forget how much the Orinda person was paying in taxes compared to someone living in MoCo.  You aren't getting your money's worth in Orinda as far as schools are concerned.  You are paying taxes up the nose *and* more than likely "donating" hundreds of dollars per year just to get services that MCPS gives out as part of its regular curriculum.   You were already in a quasi-private school.  I know, again, because we moved from such a school district in the Bay Area. All the rich school districts have nonprofit school organizations purely for raising money for these "extras".

https://www.orindaefo.org

That Orinda PP is ridiculous.  What you are saying is that rich areas should break off so that they are better served.  If Orinda were not a wealthy area, and the parents weren't donating thousands and thousands of dollars each year, it would not be so great.  [/quote]

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