Great Schools -- no longer useful

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Greatschools ratings are a great way to evaluate the quality of the neighborhood in which you live. The lower the greatschools rating, the trashier, poorer, and more crime ridden the neighborhood will likely be. The higher the rating, the more likely you are to be in a neighborhood with high quality, upstanding citizens that actually care about their neighborhood and community. It's such a great shortcut when looking to buy real estate - it really should be one of the first things you look at before you even consider looking at a potential home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Greatschools ratings are a great way to evaluate the quality of the neighborhood in which you live. The lower the greatschools rating, the trashier, poorer, and more crime ridden the neighborhood will likely be. The higher the rating, the more likely you are to be in a neighborhood with high quality, upstanding citizens that actually care about their neighborhood and community. It's such a great shortcut when looking to buy real estate - it really should be one of the first things you look at before you even consider looking at a potential home.

Especially now that they won't let you put racial covenants on new developments! How else are you supposed to know which ones are the good neighborhoods?

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?

[Anonymous]

I think that removing the racial breakdowns makes it a lot less racist. Now you don't think of race as a factor just achievement.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

Written like a parent without children in the schools yet. Diversity IS a nice idea, yes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Greatschools ratings are a great way to evaluate the quality of the neighborhood in which you live. The lower the greatschools rating, the trashier, poorer, and more crime ridden the neighborhood will likely be. The higher the rating, the more likely you are to be in a neighborhood with high quality, upstanding citizens that actually care about their neighborhood and community. It's such a great shortcut when looking to buy real estate - it really should be one of the first things you look at before you even consider looking at a potential home.

Especially now that they won't let you put racial covenants on new developments! How else are you supposed to know which ones are the good neighborhoods?

Who said anything about race? I'm fine living amongst people of any color, I just want to live in a neighborhood with good people who actually care about their neighborhood. In most parts of the country, buying an expensive house all but ensures that. Around here, you can spend half a million dollars on a house and still live in a trashy neighborhood. Greatschools ratings will generally give you a good indicator of the type of people that live in that school pyramid.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?

Why is automatically assumed someone who objects to diversity is white? The most homogenous schools in this area are in DC and Prince Georges county, but no one lectures them about a lack of diversity.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

What makes you think the expensive neighborhoods are all white and in the bland suburbs? A lot of middle eastern and Asians where we are.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?

Huh? Where do you get the hate for white people? I said we wanted diverse - which means we want to throw some white people in the mix too. Just not lily white (99.9999% white).

Mostly I'm annoyed at PP who thinks that anyone who can afford to lily white automatically prefers that environment. And then continued to mock the other PP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

Written like a parent without children in the schools yet. Diversity IS a nice idea, yes.

Sorry, 2 kids in a very diverse elementary school. Diverse and yet it's still one of the best public schools around.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?

Huh? Where do you get the hate for white people? I said we wanted diverse - which means we want to throw some white people in the mix too. Just not lily white (99.9999% white).

Mostly I'm annoyed at PP who thinks that anyone who can afford to lily white automatically prefers that environment. And then continued to mock the other PP.

I am not sure there are any expensive lilly white 99.999% white neighborhoods, maybe you are thinking about southern Virginia where there is less diversity? Every neighborhood in the DC area with a high great school rating tend to be at least 20-40% minority. Thanks for the uneducated stereotype.

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

The amount of hate towards on DCUM towards white people is pretty ridiculous. Why is it automatically assumed that a white neighborhood is bad?

Huh? Where do you get the hate for white people? I said we wanted diverse - which means we want to throw some white people in the mix too. Just not lily white (99.9999% white).

Mostly I'm annoyed at PP who thinks that anyone who can afford to lily white automatically prefers that environment. And then continued to mock the other PP.

Did you have equal contempt for, say, Davis Elementary School or Kenilworth ES? Or Ron Brown Middle School?

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Anonymous wrote:I found it very useful. Our hs is a 6, but that's just a reflection of the mixture of kids at this school. Kids like mine pass their tests at a higher rate than other kids at the school. That data helps me assess whether I want to send my kids there. If kids from non-disadvantaged backgrounds are doing well, then I'm ok with it even if the overall score is not as high. The schools with high overall scores usually don't have many disadvantaged kids in their data pool...so of course the overall score is going to be higher than schools that have a mix of kids. If our "6" hs didn't have the disadvantaged kids, it'd be an 8 too.

The only people who care about the score are the those that are worried about education for their children, but not too worried, so they just want to look for one data point on the internet and then sit around being smug.

No, we just don't want to pay an inflated price for housing just so our kids are in a lily white school (or school where 10 percent asians counts as the "diversity"). We don't like to follow the crowds for a crappy house and an unnecessarily high mortgage.

LOL, yeah right it's can't pay.

No, -- we just don't want smug neighbors like you -- talk about making the case for staying away from certain areas!

Right, completely believable

New poster here. Go shove your smug head up your ass. Not everyone who can afford a giant house in a lily white neighborhood wants to do that. Truly. Some people - myself and many of my neighbors - choose to live in a more diverse area. Not that housing is necessarily even cheaper than your bland suburb, but there are more options so you get some diversity. And WE LIKE IT. I know that must blow your mind.

Don't you have some Kumon Mom's Club meeting to attend?

Written like a parent without children in the schools yet. Diversity IS a nice idea, yes.

Sorry, 2 kids in a very diverse elementary school. Diverse and yet it's still one of the best public schools around.

What's the great schools rating?