Is Richard Montgomery HS and Rockville the best choice for our family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think RM is tough, I doubt you'll be happy anywhere really.

Well that is not true at all. Besides the IB, some of the students are from rough areas and there is gang activity, lots of dropouts, more Spanish speaking than you can possibly imagine. Many of the nicer areas send their kids to private school. They tried helping RM by redistricting and putting in IB but it doesn't resolve the underlining issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids need to be in honors classes in order to avoid being in class with thugs. Seriously. This is pretty much the case at ANY mcps HS. Sad, but true.

I'm not sure I'd use the word "thug", but in general, you will probably find more disruptive behavior in any non-honor/AP type classes no matter what school.

Diversity, both race and SES, is important to my family, too. Unfortunately, all of the W schools lack them.

What type of behavior are we talking about here? Just clowning around? Threats to the teacher, other kids?

I have a few neighbors whose kids go to RM, non IB, and they seemed to think it's fine.

The W schools have a lot of diversity. Just not the ones that bring down the test numbers, act out in class and don't give a sh1t about school.

[Anonymous]

Moco parent use honors classes to segregate from the kids that don't care about school. This is true at all schools in moco.

Honor classes are not really that much harder.

[Anonymous]

Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

Every single school in MCPS is like that. High achieving kids take AP or IB classes and pretty much only serious kids are there. Good kids take the honors classes. The disruptive elements take the regular class and so every single school gets segregated.

In the end, what it means is that you can get a quality education in any MCPS school if your kid is taking AP/IB or Honors. There may be sex, drugs, gang activities etc among other kids, but these kids are not really interacting with the studious kids and are very much segregated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your kids need to be in honors classes in order to avoid being in class with thugs. Seriously. This is pretty much the case at ANY mcps HS. Sad, but true.

I'm not sure I'd use the word "thug", but in general, you will probably find more disruptive behavior in any non-honor/AP type classes no matter what school.

Diversity, both race and SES, is important to my family, too. Unfortunately, all of the W schools lack them.

What type of behavior are we talking about here? Just clowning around? Threats to the teacher, other kids?

I have a few neighbors whose kids go to RM, non IB, and they seemed to think it's fine.

The W schools have a lot of diversity. Just not the ones that bring down the test numbers, act out in class and don't give a sh1t about school.

What kind of diversity are you talking about, then, because, based on the figures from the At A Glance sheets, they sure aren't diverse in the two areas I mentioned: SES and race. I wouldn't call the small % of minorities or FARMS students in the W schools "diverse". They are just a token. Someone posted a graph of FARMS/minorities representation across all the MCPS HS, and RM and QO were right smack in the middle. To me, that's diverse. The W schools were on the extreme right, with very little FARMs/minorities in comparison to RM and QO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you think RM is tough, I doubt you'll be happy anywhere really.

Well that is not true at all. Besides the IB, some of the students are from rough areas and there is gang activity, lots of dropouts, more Spanish speaking than you can possibly imagine. Many of the nicer areas send their kids to private school. They tried helping RM by redistricting and putting in IB but it doesn't resolve the underlining issue.

I don;t think there is any data to back this up. I live in one of the nicer areas and it is full of RM kids...some private too of course but lots of public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

Every single school in MCPS is like that. High achieving kids take AP or IB classes and pretty much only serious kids are there. Good kids take the honors classes. The disruptive elements take the regular class and so every single school gets segregated.

In the end, what it means is that you can get a quality education in any MCPS school if your kid is taking AP/IB or Honors. There may be sex, drugs, gang activities etc among other kids, but these kids are not really interacting with the studious kids and are very much segregated.

Yes but when you go to a school where more kids are serious or like you, it is a healthier environment. I don't know anyone who wants to go to a school with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. I am all for a racially diverse school but I certainly don't want my child going to school with poor and illegal kids. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher.
Every single school in MCPS is like that. High achieving kids take AP or IB classes and pretty much only serious kids are there. Good kids take the honors classes. The disruptive elements take the regular class and so every single school gets segregated.

In the end, what it means is that you can get a quality education in any MCPS school if your kid is taking AP/IB or Honors. There may be sex, drugs, gang activities etc among other kids, but these kids are not really interacting with the studious kids and are very much segregated.

Yes but when you go to a school where more kids are serious or like you, it is a healthier environment. I don't know anyone who wants to go to a school with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. I am all for a racially diverse school but I certainly don't want my child going to school with poor and illegal kids. Sorry.

You must mean that you don't want your children to attend school with kids who are members gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. Not that you don't want your children to attend school with poor and illegal children. You cannot truly believe that all poor and illegal children are members of gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher.

[Anonymous]

If you just have one home, you are one of the poors at Whitman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher.
Every single school in MCPS is like that. High achieving kids take AP or IB classes and pretty much only serious kids are there. Good kids take the honors classes. The disruptive elements take the regular class and so every single school gets segregated.

In the end, what it means is that you can get a quality education in any MCPS school if your kid is taking AP/IB or Honors. There may be sex, drugs, gang activities etc among other kids, but these kids are not really interacting with the studious kids and are very much segregated.

Yes but when you go to a school where more kids are serious or like you, it is a healthier environment. I don't know anyone who wants to go to a school with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. I am all for a racially diverse school but I certainly don't want my child going to school with poor and illegal kids. Sorry.

You must mean that you don't want your children to attend school with kids who are members gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. Not that you don't want your children to attend school with poor and illegal children. You cannot truly believe that all poor and illegal children are members of gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher.

If their kids were in a diverse school they would know that. Alas ... They don't get it... Never will.

[Anonymous]

There's an area of townhouses that feed into Wootton jn your price range. It's City of Rockville. Wootton is a stronger school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an area of townhouses that feed into Wootton jn your price range. It's City of Rockville. Wootton is a stronger school.

Forgot to add the community is called Rockshire.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's an area of townhouses that feed into Wootton jn your price range. It's City of Rockville. Wootton is a stronger school.

Wootton is high pressure. OP said her kids were not that academically strong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Precisely pp. Academically average but well behaved kids take honors classes. Kids who tell the teacher to F off take regular classes...and you don't want your kid around that.

Every single school in MCPS is like that. High achieving kids take AP or IB classes and pretty much only serious kids are there. Good kids take the honors classes. The disruptive elements take the regular class and so every single school gets segregated.

In the end, what it means is that you can get a quality education in any MCPS school if your kid is taking AP/IB or Honors. There may be sex, drugs, gang activities etc among other kids, but these kids are not really interacting with the studious kids and are very much segregated.

Yes but when you go to a school where more kids are serious or like you, it is a healthier environment. I don't know anyone who wants to go to a school with gangs, dropouts, foul-mouth a$$holes that tell off the teacher. I am all for a racially diverse school but I certainly don't want my child going to school with poor and illegal kids. Sorry.

Can you provide some evidence that there are gangs in RM?