...In 2008, Roxana Moayedi was living in Potomac. Her children were enrolled in the nationally acclaimed Montgomery County Public Schools: middle school at Herbert Hoover, then high school at Winston Churchill.
Then Moayedi, a sociology professor at Trinity Washington University, picked up and moved her family to Mount Pleasant...
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/05/parents-move-kids-suburban-schools-dc#ixzz1LVhXd6TB
"Knowing what she knows now, Moayedi said she would have stayed in Potomac: "I made the assumption that nobody would destroy a school like that. No, I wouldn't have moved here.""
ReplyDeleteHere is part of the article you didn't quote. She says she wouldn't have moved her children to DC if she knew what she does now. Also if parents on the West side of the County would like diversity...just move to the East side of the county. Over half our staff is African American, over 60% of our students are African American, and we are losing staffing too. We have it all in MoCo, it just might require people to venture into a part of the county they aren't familiar with.
Can't get a 100% graduation rate anywhere in MCPS.
ReplyDeleteBoth mothers love Walls, a Northwest magnet school with a 100 percent graduation rate that draws from all of the city's wards. And both say they were shocked when DCPS proposed cutting $320,490 -- about 7 percent of the school's budget -- for the upcoming school year.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/dc/2011/05/parents-move-kids-suburban-schools-dc#ixzz1Lb6tI5JC