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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I agree.   The public schools in smaller wealthy towns do an excellent job because they have more money than county budgets and parents have more money in case children have extra needs or have expensive interests outside of the schools.  Lexington is a feeder school for Harvard along with a couple of other suburban high schools near Cambridge.

I would choose a low key private school if I had to rely on a county district.  [/quote]

Public schools in wealthy towns don’t do a better job, the parents of the children that attend do a better job parenting and supplementing outside of school.  [/quote]

No, it’s both.  Money matters and schools that are not properly funded can’t do the job to the best of their ability.  [/quote]

So in that case you should be advocating for more to be spent in education by the county, state, and federal government.  It would be great if they started with fully funding IDEA.[/quote]

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