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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mcps experience in ES varies widely from school to school. Some are very small with warm, supportive communities if engaged parents who volunteer regularly. Others are massive and feel very impersonal with huge segments of the population being completely unaware or involved in what’s happening at school.

Bethesda ES is one of the massive schools and it was fine until second grade for all three of our DCs. Agree with PP who commented about mcps only seeing groups, not individuals. We absolutey felt that way at BE. When we moved to private with our eldest we were blown away by how well our DD’s teachers knew our daughter. The care and quality of instruction, student:teacher ratio, flexibility and creativity was night and day. We were fortunate to be able to afford private (although it was a stretch) and it absolutely was the right choice for our family. That said, we have friends who were zoned for other ES and their experience was totally different (better) than ours at BE. Principal, size of school, and parent engagement matter. [/quote]

So does ability to be able to weed out people you don’t want, throw out those who don’t immediately conform, and never have to go over a pre-determined enrollment.  We should give public schools the same flexibility.

But then what kind of society would we have.[/quote]

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