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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The suburban public high schools around here may be good compared to, say, DCPS, but when I think “good public school,” I think of town-based school districts. I get the arguments for county-based ones, but in those, families like mine are not the main constituents.

I think of places like the Philly mainline towns; many in the NJ/NY/CT tristate area (such as Westport, Darien, Scarsdale, Jericho, Basking Ridge, Syosset, Greenwich and Bronxville); ones in MA such as Lexington and Newton and West Windsor Plainsboro in NJ.

Lots of rezoning around here, which I’m not a fan of. [/quote]

Good schools and wealthy schools are not the same thing.  Look at how a system does with special ed and ELL kids to define "good"[/quote]

You can look at Massachusetts schools and see special ed and ELL taken seriously.   If a child needs to go to a separate school due to special needs they still get their diploma from their home high school.  Statistics on SAT scores and college will include all special needs students.

Massachusetts was the first state to pass a law in 1972 that guaranteed students with disabilities the right to an education in the least restrictive environment.  The federal law followed a few years later and Massachusetts still does a good job.  [/quote]

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