[Snickersnee]

Public-school Ping from a proud product of the Washington DC and Prince Georges County school systems (1951-1964.) An excellent education from both. (Mostly wasted on an indifferent student like me, but it got me into law school and beyond later on!)

Do I understand those schools aren't as good as they used to be?

Just axin'

[JenB]

My mother went to school in Northern Virginia in the 70s and 80s and she says it was a failure then. And she was in the gifted program. She got her education later when she homeschooled my siblings and me.

[MrB]

Good for you, having grown up in a time before the public school system became an indoctrination bureaucracy and a place to “cage” the fatherless consequences of the welfare state.

[PLMerite]

I went thru the P.G. County school system (Northwestern H.S. 1978) and I can attest that they were going downhill then. I still live in the area and I don’t think they’ve gotten any better although they might claim it.