Really do your research. If you do you may not choose this district.
- agreed to write their own curriculum for a private company (Pearson) for new common core standards and stayed with it for a decade - even when they knew it was failing students
-had student data hacked in 2015 - likely by a competitor to Pearson and covered it up
-former superintendent took a junket to Australia and New Zealand after giving Pearson exclusive contract, then retired
-current superintendent was consultant for Discovery Education / which wants to push its old shark videos as science curriculum - look for them to be given contracts
-serious sexual assault by staff members - teachers, coaches, bus drivers, students, covered up by staff members

This is a failed system that spends 3 billion a year of tax dollars with no inspector general. No other system as large as this goes this unchecked - it has misspent money on everything from bus cameras to promethium boards to astroturf fields but offers so many jobs to county residents everyone just looks away. If you decide to really look at this criminal and corrupt organization you will likely decide to send your child to a private school or move to HoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.

All schools offer the same curriculum and teachers. Move to an area that you like.

+1. In summary—if your child is exceptionally gifted they will get attention. If your child has significant SN they will get attention. Everyone else in the county falls in the middle. The middle is very wide. Students in the middle don’t get much focus.

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Nope to the second point about S/N, particularly dyslexia. Had to leave county to get FAPE.

Even children with significant SN, non-verbal/behaviors etc. are ignored and denied services. MCPS disgusts me.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.

All schools offer the same curriculum and teachers. Move to an area that you like.

+1. In summary—if your child is exceptionally gifted they will get attention. If your child has significant SN they will get attention. Everyone else in the county falls in the middle. The middle is very wide. Students in the middle don’t get much focus.

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Nope to the second point about S/N, particularly dyslexia. Had to leave county to get FAPE.

Where did you go?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.

All schools offer the same curriculum and teachers. Move to an area that you like.

+1. In summary—if your child is exceptionally gifted they will get attention. If your child has significant SN they will get attention. Everyone else in the county falls in the middle. The middle is very wide. Students in the middle don’t get much focus.

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Nope to the second point about S/N, particularly dyslexia. Had to leave county to get FAPE.

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Anonymous wrote:Depending on how the board of education election turns out, there could be significant redistricting to more equitably balance out opportunities for students. Just a word of caution on putting too much weight into what cluster a particular house feeds into.

That would be wonderful! I hear there are some wealthy schools where they have artificially gerrymandered their boundaries to exclude the poor and even have <5% FARMS in a county where the average is 35%.

Eh. I think the notion that sending FARMS kids to “rich” schools solves all problems is extremely lazy.

Anonymous wrote:Depending on how the board of education election turns out, there could be significant redistricting to more equitably balance out opportunities for students. Just a word of caution on putting too much weight into what cluster a particular house feeds into.

That would be wonderful! I hear there are some wealthy schools where they have artificially gerrymandered their boundaries to exclude the poor and even have <5% FARMS in a county where the average is 35%.

Anonymous wrote:before i found our pyramid, i did a lot of extensive research mostly online. everything i learned turned out to be correct for the most part.

probably the only thing i didn't find in my research is how non-rigorous the curriculum can be. but there are fixes for that.

so i'd recommend diy. from observation, a large number of posters on dcum are in W school pyramids, so there are a lot of confirming bias posts.

i went to a highly ranked, affluent school district that was racist and materialistic, so that kind of school is not something i'd want for my DC. mental health is more important, imo. aside from the lack of rigor - which is a problem with most schools - am happy with the extremely diverse school we picked - the students are well behaved and respectful of teachers and each other. you can get the gist of what the different schools are like here through dcum, though they are heavily caricatured.

Could you tell me which you picked??

Depending on how the board of education election turns out, there could be significant redistricting to more equitably balance out opportunities for students. Just a word of caution on putting too much weight into what cluster a particular house feeds into.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.

All schools offer the same curriculum and teachers. Move to an area that you like.

+1. In summary—if your child is exceptionally gifted they will get attention. If your child has significant SN they will get attention. Everyone else in the county falls in the middle. The middle is very wide. Students in the middle don’t get much focus.

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run the numbers

before i found our pyramid, i did a lot of extensive research mostly online. everything i learned turned out to be correct for the most part.

probably the only thing i didn't find in my research is how non-rigorous the curriculum can be. but there are fixes for that.

so i'd recommend diy. from observation, a large number of posters on dcum are in W school pyramids, so there are a lot of confirming bias posts.

i went to a highly ranked, affluent school district that was racist and materialistic, so that kind of school is not something i'd want for my DC. mental health is more important, imo. aside from the lack of rigor - which is a problem with most schools - am happy with the extremely diverse school we picked - the students are well behaved and respectful of teachers and each other. you can get the gist of what the different schools are like here through dcum, though they are heavily caricatured.

Anonymous wrote:Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.

All schools offer the same curriculum and teachers. Move to an area that you like.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know of any, but I really don't think it's necessary to pay someone to tell you which school zones you might want to look in. Focus on the neighborhood that works for your family and your commute.

Thanks, but there are many, many options that work for commute and housing, so I could use help. I need someone with a broad knowledge of the area. (Actually DC and NOVA as well, but thought I'd post here first.)

I don't know of any, but I really don't think it's necessary to pay someone to tell you which school zones you might want to look in. Focus on the neighborhood that works for your family and your commute.

Is there such thing as a knowledgeable educational consultant for MCPS? We are considering a move there but not sure about which pyramid.