Anonymous wrote:Moved after living in good districts in NC and GA. MCPS is better. Sure each state had a district that was better than where we lived, but even knowing families from those districts I didn’t notice their kids having any noticeably better skills at what would be considered core class. They did have better specials and band programs and extra curricular. But that was just a function of money and parenting outside of school.

The only thing we liked better were the school calendar and community culture.

Can you elaborate how community culture was?

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Anonymous wrote:From DCPS, no comparison. Light years better

+1.

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Moved after living in good districts in NC and GA. MCPS is better. Sure each state had a district that was better than where we lived, but even knowing families from those districts I didn’t notice their kids having any noticeably better skills at what would be considered core class. They did have better specials and band programs and extra curricular. But that was just a function of money and parenting outside of school.

The only thing we liked better were the school calendar and community culture.

Neighbor just moved here from Missouri and said MCPS is better/harder for her 4th grader.

I'm from NY/Long Island and feel my education was much better than what I see in MCPS so far at the elementary level.

Anonymous wrote:From DCPS, no comparison. Light years better

+1.

From a DC charter in elementary my kids were several years ahead of MCPS. Now in high school and MCPS is much better than it DC options would have been.

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Anonymous wrote:Came from California. MCPS is much, much better.

Where in CA? Views can vary depending on where in CA they're coming from.

This is true for lots of states.

Moved from another state. I preferred some things in our old district, but the variety of choices in MCPS, especially at the high school level, is phenomenal.

Anonymous wrote:Came from California. MCPS is much, much better.

Where in CA? Views can vary depending on where in CA they're coming from.

Came from California. MCPS is much, much better.

Came from a different state. MCPS is much better.

Coming from the Bay Area, it's better. It definitely has issues, but the programs in MCPS are much better.

From DCPS, no comparison. Light years better

If you're coming from Baltimore you're happy. If you're coming from Howard, you may feel differently.

Are you finding MCPS underwhelming? Or better than you expected? Why?