If you could choose any MCPS cluster for DC, which would it be and why?

[Anonymous]

LOL. WJ a W school. Not in my day.

[Anonymous]

When we were looking for homes - my top choices were RM and QO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is traditionally a nickname for the four "W"hitest schools in the county. Whittman, Wootten, Winston Churchhill and Walter Johnson...which also happen to have H's somewhere in their name.

Since when WJ got in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is traditionally a nickname for the four "W"hitest schools in the county. Whittman, Wootten, Winston Churchhill and Walter Johnson...which also happen to have H's somewhere in their name.

Since when WJ got in?

When Woodward closed in 1987.

[Anonymous]

LOL. Our HS is Watkins Mill. We bought the house because we loved it. Kids went to magnets and Poolesville SMACS and RMIB - so in the end the schools did not affect us.

If I did have to buy a house based on what the kids could handle academically (so if kids were not Poolesville or RM material), QO would offer a good balance. It is a middle ground HS for a majority of students with wide range of academic caliber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is traditionally a nickname for the four "W"hitest schools in the county. Whittman, Wootten, Winston Churchhill and Walter Johnson...which also happen to have H's somewhere in their name.

Yes. The general public uses this moniker for the "vaunted" W schools. Even the press has picked up on it.

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/20089/montgomery-schools-cant-coast-on-their-good-reputation/

[Anonymous]

That should say W's not H's in their names//

[Anonymous]

WJ is not as diverse as you think. It has significantly fewer AAs and Hispanics than the county as a whole and more whites. I know that wasn't the original question.

We are in a position to choose any school, and we choose a small diverse public for elementary and a small diverse private for the upper grades.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WJ is not as diverse as you think. It has significantly fewer AAs and Hispanics than the county as a whole and more whites. I know that wasn't the original question.

We are in a position to choose any school, and we choose a small diverse public for elementary and a small diverse private for the upper grades.

Private schools are never as diverse as even the whitest schools in MoCo.

[Anonymous]

Is Wheaton a W school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is Wheaton a W school?

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Wheaton a W school?

Yes.

No, no, no.. it's not about the schools that start with W. It's about the high performing schools where either the first or last name of the school (or both in case of Walt Whitman) has a W in it.

Read the link http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/20089/mont...oast-on-their-good-reputation/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is Wheaton a W school?

Yes.

No, no, no.. it's not about the schools that start with W. It's about the high performing schools where either the first or last name of the school (or both in case of Walt Whitman) has a W in it.

Read the link http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/20089/mont...oast-on-their-good-reputation/

And yet I've never heard anybody talk about Winston Churchill HS. Plus B-CC should be in the group, except that it doesn't have a w in the name. Maybe MCPS should change the name to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School at East-West Highway. Then it would have two ws, just like Whitman.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is traditionally a nickname for the four "W"hitest schools in the county. Whittman, Wootten, Winston Churchhill and Walter Johnson...which also happen to have H's somewhere in their name.

This poster has it right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would pick Quince Orchard

Signed, RM Parent

New poster here. Could you elaborate? I'm in Wootton now and would prefer RM or QO. I think of them as being similarly diverse and less pressure-cooker than Wootton. What distinguishes them for you?

QO and RM are very similar schools. The only major difference is RM is home of MCPS IB magnet program.