What are the Ws?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the Ws? Does it include BCC?
And is BCC a good high school? Like, good high school experience?

Thanks

According to MCPS, the Ws are

Washington Grove ES
Waters Landing ES
Watkins Mill ES
Wayside ES
Weller Road ES
Westbrook ES
Westover ES
Wheaton Woods ES
Whetstone ES
Wilson Wims ES
Wood Acres ES
Woodfield ES
Woodlin ES
Wyngate ES
Hallie Wells MS
Julius West MS
Westland MS
White Oak MS
Earle B. Wood MS
Watkins Mill HS
Wheaton HS
Walt Whitman HS
Thomas Wootton HS

Talkin about HS! Someone already mentioned Wheaton HS and Watkins Mill HS.

Ws: Walt, Walter, Winston

Woo is Thomas, Woodward will be Charles so neither are Ws.

Also, Who cares!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What posters always forget are Wheaton HS and Watkins Woodward HS when it opens will be another W. Don't forget the B schools: Blair, Branch, B-CC

Johnson and Churchill are not W schools either.

Walter Johnson and Winston Churchill?

If you want to alphabetize by first names, then Thomas Wootton is not a W school, and Charles Woodward will also not be a W school. But Wheaton and Watkins Mill still are W schools.

Are you not from DC? This is not a literal thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What posters always forget are Wheaton HS and Watkins Woodward HS when it opens will be another W. Don't forget the B schools: Blair, Branch, B-CC

Johnson and Churchill are not W schools either.

Walter Johnson and Winston Churchill?

If you want to alphabetize by first names, then Thomas Wootton is not a W school, and Charles Woodward will also not be a W school. But Wheaton and Watkins Mill still are W schools.

Are you not from DC? This is not a literal thing.

And clearly you didn't get that poster. Purpose was to make it literal. Duh. -DP

[Anonymous]

W stands for withdraw

[Anonymous]

The only majority white (what the W really stands for) is Walt Whitman HS which is still majority white in 2020s MoCo. The 90s are long gone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What posters always forget are Wheaton HS and Watkins Woodward HS when it opens will be another W. Don't forget the B schools: Blair, Branch, B-CC

Johnson and Churchill are not W schools either.

Walter Johnson and Winston Churchill?

If you want to alphabetize by first names, then Thomas Wootton is not a W school, and Charles Woodward will also not be a W school. But Wheaton and Watkins Mill still are W schools.

Are you not from DC? This is not a literal thing.

Are they DC public schools? I thought they were Montgomery County public schools.

[Anonymous]

W?
Stands for wonderful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only majority white (what the W really stands for) is Walt Whitman HS which is still majority white in 2020s MoCo. The 90s are long gone.

A few years ago, MCPS included Asians as white because they outperformed whites and wanted to continue their "white supremacy is ruining everything" narrative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only majority white (what the W really stands for) is Walt Whitman HS which is still majority white in 2020s MoCo. The 90s are long gone.

A few years ago, MCPS included Asians as white because they outperformed whites and wanted to continue their "white supremacy is ruining everything" narrative.

No, MCPS did not "include Asians as white."

Also, this thread is about people's ideas of "the Ws," which is a concept MCPS itself doesn't even acknowledge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only majority white (what the W really stands for) is Walt Whitman HS which is still majority white in 2020s MoCo. The 90s are long gone.

A few years ago, MCPS included Asians as white because they outperformed whites and wanted to continue their "white supremacy is ruining everything" narrative.

No, they didn't. Stop deliberately peddling misinformation.

[Anonymous]

BCC is a W... wealthy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only majority white (what the W really stands for) is Walt Whitman HS which is still majority white in 2020s MoCo. The 90s are long gone.

A few years ago, MCPS included Asians as white because they outperformed whites and wanted to continue their "white supremacy is ruining everything" narrative.

You're thinking of UMD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ws are traditionally the MCPS high schools near-ish Bethesda that have higher SES and perform well.

They are:
- Walt Whitman
- Winston Churchill
- Walter Johnson
- Wootton
- maybe Woodward will be one when it opens because it's in the middle of all of these, but who knows

These are the schools where a huge proportion of the class has an outstanding GPA, the graduation rates are high, the family investment in education is high, and the extracurriculars about. Most are primarily populated by White and Asian students. Most will go on to "a good college."

BCC is also a good school and pulls from a higher SES demographic. But it has "uniquely urban" problems that the above schools do not, so it's not really a W. We send our kid to one of the above but I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid to BCC and when we were looking for houses a few years ago when they were in MS we looked in the BCC pyramid.

MCPS has a median FARMS rate of roughly 35% whereas the W's are <5% and not diverse, The W's just have fewer low-income kids dragging down their standardized test average. This is not the same as high-performing. Most every MCPS school has a high-performing cohort.

The data is available online so you don’t need to make vague characterizations like “not diverse”. Are there schools with more black and Hispanic kids? Yes of course. Is it all white and not diverse? No.

The school at a glance for WJ 2022-23 shows that the FARMs rate is 16% and 49.9% are white; 17.8% are Hispanic; 14.7% are Asian; .1% are American Indian/Native American; 11.2% are Black/African American; 6.2% are two or more races; and .1% are Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04424.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ws are traditionally the MCPS high schools near-ish Bethesda that have higher SES and perform well.

They are:
- Walt Whitman
- Winston Churchill
- Walter Johnson
- Wootton
- maybe Woodward will be one when it opens because it's in the middle of all of these, but who knows

These are the schools where a huge proportion of the class has an outstanding GPA, the graduation rates are high, the family investment in education is high, and the extracurriculars about. Most are primarily populated by White and Asian students. Most will go on to "a good college."

BCC is also a good school and pulls from a higher SES demographic. But it has "uniquely urban" problems that the above schools do not, so it's not really a W. We send our kid to one of the above but I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid to BCC and when we were looking for houses a few years ago when they were in MS we looked in the BCC pyramid.

The expectations of excellence aren't limited to the families. Those schools are run by administrators who value education and expect excellence from each child no matter their familial background, economic status, special needs, etc.
Can't speak to bcc but there is a glaring difference in how students are supported at W schools and non.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ws are traditionally the MCPS high schools near-ish Bethesda that have higher SES and perform well.

They are:
- Walt Whitman
- Winston Churchill
- Walter Johnson
- Wootton
- maybe Woodward will be one when it opens because it's in the middle of all of these, but who knows

These are the schools where a huge proportion of the class has an outstanding GPA, the graduation rates are high, the family investment in education is high, and the extracurriculars about. Most are primarily populated by White and Asian students. Most will go on to "a good college."

BCC is also a good school and pulls from a higher SES demographic. But it has "uniquely urban" problems that the above schools do not, so it's not really a W. We send our kid to one of the above but I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid to BCC and when we were looking for houses a few years ago when they were in MS we looked in the BCC pyramid.

The expectations of excellence aren't limited to the families. Those schools are run by administrators who value education and expect excellence from each child no matter their familial background, economic status, special needs, etc.
Can't speak to bcc but there is a glaring difference in how students are supported at W schools and non.

Whereas in the Ganglandia schools, all of the administrators hate education and expect each child to fail no matter their familial background, economic status, special needs, etc.!

Or something.