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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you're as clever as you believe yourself to be.

Correct. My youngest is in a Bethesda high school. We know people from various privates and all the major public school districts of the DC, MD, VA area.

MCPS is better at offering special programs to the gifted and special needs populations than most of the nation's public school systems. It's famous for it. It's the ONLY public school system in the US that offers a program specifically for twice exceptional kids (gifted and learning disabled). However, it has security problems, cronyism issues, and recently had a scandal with a known sexual harasser being promoted and protected by Central Office.

DCPS is academically the pits, in part due to a large low-income population - but even NW DCPS doesn't come close to MCPS, because wealthy families in DC are more ready to put their kids in privates, more so than equivalent socio-economic areas of Bethesda and Chevy Chase.

FCPS has serious operational and organizational issues.

Further out, school districts have less economic and cultural heterogeneity to contend with, which makes instruction easier, but there is a dearth of special programs.

MCPS's 2e program may be great or it may simply not have much to compare it to but it certainly isn't big enough. If youre lucky enough to get it, good for you. The Moderately 2E students are treated like trash and come out of the system without the required skills to do well.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you're as clever as you believe yourself to be.

Correct. My youngest is in a Bethesda high school. We know people from various privates and all the major public school districts of the DC, MD, VA area.

MCPS is better at offering special programs to the gifted and special needs populations than most of the nation's public school systems. It's famous for it. It's the ONLY public school system in the US that offers a program specifically for twice exceptional kids (gifted and learning disabled). However, it has security problems, cronyism issues, and recently had a scandal with a known sexual harasser being promoted and protected by Central Office.

DCPS is academically the pits, in part due to a large low-income population - but even NW DCPS doesn't come close to MCPS, because wealthy families in DC are more ready to put their kids in privates, more so than equivalent socio-economic areas of Bethesda and Chevy Chase.

FCPS has serious operational and organizational issues.

Further out, school districts have less economic and cultural heterogeneity to contend with, which makes instruction easier, but there is a dearth of special programs.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think you're as clever as you believe yourself to be.

Anonymous wrote:Ask Jeff to change forum name please.