Blair pyramid or Kennedy pyramid
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Anonymous
Interesting.... |
Anonymous
In 2017-18, Blair had 694 white students and Poolesville had 601. |
Anonymous
And maybe 150 of the nearly 700 white students might be out of bounds magnet |
Anonymous
I'd imagine that is similar to Poolesville. About 75% to 80% of the Blair magnet is OOB of which 40% is white so roughly 120 students. |
Anonymous
I'd imagine that is similar to Poolesville. About 75% to 80% of the Blair magnet is OOB of which 40% is white so roughly 120 students. In 2017-2018, John Poole MS had 116 8th graders, of whom 71.7% were white, so 83 white 8th graders. And Poolesville HS had 293 9th graders, of whom 50.8% were white, so 149 white 9th graders. Assuming that each class is typical in size and demographic make-up (which one should not necessarily assume), just over half of the white students at Poolesville HS are zoned for Poolesville HS. So much for the numbers. I'm not understanding the reasoning here, though. Is the argument that all of the white students at Blair are zoned for other schools (other schools, period? other schools outside the DCC?) and are only at Blair because of the SMACS magnet? And so therefore they don't really count as Blair students? Or something? |
Anonymous
So about 25% of the white kids at blair are magnet which makes up about almost 10% of that 22%. 36% is quite a bit considering how poor one has to be to count as poor but the real rate is well north of 50% considering kids who have ever accepted FARMS and that doesn't factor in copious amounts of Latino Kids with incomplete data spurred on by their lack of trust in the system due to their questionable immigration status of them or their parents. I would bet the real world poor levels at Blair is 60-70% Yes i consider a 10% dropout rate(1/10), published 50% poverty levels (1/2) and flirting with single digit populations of IB kids that look like my kid (13%) to be deal breakers. Not to mention the traffic and location in a slipping part of the city, I have no idea why people get excited about Blair, one must surmise that the rest of the DCC is really bad. |
Anonymous
In 2017-2018, John Poole MS had 116 8th graders, of whom 71.7% were white, so 83 white 8th graders. And Poolesville HS had 293 9th graders, of whom 50.8% were white, so 149 white 9th graders. Assuming that each class is typical in size and demographic make-up (which one should not necessarily assume), just over half of the white students at Poolesville HS are zoned for Poolesville HS. So much for the numbers. I'm not understanding the reasoning here, though. Is the argument that all of the white students at Blair are zoned for other schools (other schools, period? other schools outside the DCC?) and are only at Blair because of the SMACS magnet? And so therefore they don't really count as Blair students? Or something? That is particularly silly, given that Takoma Park and Woodmoor (especially) have plenty of white people, and are both zoned for Blair. |
Anonymous
In other words: you don't want your white kid at Blair because there are lots of kids at Blair who aren't white and are poor, and you also don't like that other people's opinions of Blair may be different from yours. Oh well, less competition for the kids who do want to go to Blair. Win-win. Yay! |
Anonymous
Well ok, don't let reality get in the way of your fear-based racial paranoia. Just stay wherever the heck it is you live, and keep that craziness with you. |
Anonymous
2019 Most Diverse Public High Schools in Maryland https://www.niche.com/k12/search/most-diverse-public-high-schools/s/maryland/ |
Anonymous
| If your child is in the Blair magnet or CAP, they will have most of their classes with highly motivated students. I don't get the relevance of the race of those students. |
Anonymous
It isn't relevant. In fact, there's been no discussion along those lines. This was about determining a school's merit by factoring for the socioeconomic differences. Most of the metrics put forth here are simple averages which tell us little aside from a neighborhood's overall affluence. The earlier poster was trying to address this by looking at a head to head comparison of how a single large common cohort performs across these schools. |
Anonymous
Diversity is code for lower standards? Got it! Who is looking for less competition now? |
Anonymous
[code]It isn't relevant. In fact, there's been no discussion along those lines. This was about determining a school's merit by factoring for the socioeconomic differences. Most of the metrics put forth here are simple averages which tell us little aside from a neighborhood's overall affluence. The earlier poster was trying to address this by looking at a head to head comparison of how a single large common cohort performs across these schools.
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