Walter Johnson vs. Bullis

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a child at Bullis that was able to be accelerated beyond what could be offered at a MCPS public school. Most of my child's teachers had PhDs in the subject area they taught. Several were faculty members at local universities.

I have another child in public but not at WJ. Besides smaller class sizes and the qualifications of the faculty, the biggest improvement is the honor code. Students can be expelled for bullying, sexual harassment, and racial slurs. Drugs also are nonexistent on campus where in public school it's an open drug market.

Private school is expensive but worth the investment.

Sure hon.
Anything to justify overpaying for an inferior product.
LOL

Exactly. It’s such a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have another child in public but not at WJ. Besides smaller class sizes and the qualifications of the faculty, the biggest improvement is the honor code. Students can be expelled for bullying, sexual harassment, and racial slurs.

This winter I was watching a basketball game between two MCPS middle schools. Apparently, one of the MCPS middle schools had taken in a former Bullis student who had been expelled from Bullis for racial slurs. Whenever he would touch the ball, the fans of the other MCPS middle school would chant:

"Let's go Bullis"
"Let's go Bullis"

No its not really relevant to this thread, but I enjoyed watching the kids take on racial issues on their own.

[Anonymous]

Bullis is a good school. It is not as academically challenging as Sidwell, Holton, St Albans etc but it still provides a solid private school education.

1. Teachers are better. They are fired if they are bad unlike MCPS which will just keep shuffling them around. Teachers actually grade work. They don't have to spend the majority of their time reporting data.

2. Curriculum is better. Curriculum is not "home grown" nonsense.

3. Facilties are amazing.

4. Interesting electives and good course selection in high school.

5. More rigor in math and more writing assignments

6. Athletic program and the arts are very strong.

The downside is that there is a lot of wealth there much more than at WJ.

[Anonymous]

Have you seen the math curriculum at WJ? And btw, PhDs are teaching science at WJ too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis has a beautiful campus, bad reputation, and snooty parents.

If its so bad, then why are so many kids going there?

Because there are a lot of stupid rich parents that believe anything you pay for is better. I know this from experience.

Are there any old family monies going to Bullis? Nope.

And, you really think MCPS with their lousy curriculum with no text books and over use of chrome books, and all the issues with MCPS is better? Nope! Old money families - who cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis has a beautiful campus, bad reputation, and snooty parents.

If its so bad, then why are so many kids going there?

Because there are a lot of stupid rich parents that believe anything you pay for is better. I know this from experience.

Are there any old family monies going to Bullis? Nope.

And, you really think MCPS with their lousy curriculum with no text books and over use of chrome books, and all the issues with MCPS is better? Nope! Old money families - who cares.

My kids have textbooks (MS for Alg 1, HS for Functions (3 books!), HIstory, Phsyics and some others).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis has a beautiful campus, bad reputation, and snooty parents.

If its so bad, then why are so many kids going there?

Because there are a lot of stupid rich parents that believe anything you pay for is better. I know this from experience.

Are there any old family monies going to Bullis? Nope.

And, you really think MCPS with their lousy curriculum with no text books and over use of chrome books, and all the issues with MCPS is better? Nope! Old money families - who cares.

Yes, way better

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bullis is a good school. It is not as academically challenging as Sidwell, Holton, St Albans etc but it still provides a solid private school education.

1. Teachers are better. They are fired if they are bad unlike MCPS which will just keep shuffling them around. Teachers actually grade work. They don't have to spend the majority of their time reporting data.

2. Curriculum is better. Curriculum is not "home grown" nonsense.

3. Facilties are amazing.

4. Interesting electives and good course selection in high school.

5. More rigor in math and more writing assignments

6. Athletic program and the arts are very strong.

The downside is that there is a lot of wealth there much more than at WJ.

If I was paying for an inferior product, I would be as delusional as you are too.

[Anonymous]

It’s always tricky in these forums because people only know what they’ve experienced, so few people can actually answer a question of how this school compares to that school. Even if they could, it is even rarer that their perspective relates to the same kid, so apples and oranges. That said, Bullis’ math curriculum lags MCPS significantly in that for the same course, they will cover less content. And like MCPS, Bullis relies more on packets and less on textbooks than we did in our day. And Bullis uses parent-supplied laptops in a similar way to MCPS’ chrome books. These issues are more of a modern educational techniques issue than one school vs the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis has a beautiful campus, bad reputation, and snooty parents.

If its so bad, then why are so many kids going there?

Because there are a lot of stupid rich parents that believe anything you pay for is better. I know this from experience.

Are there any old family monies going to Bullis? Nope.

And, you really think MCPS with their lousy curriculum with no text books and over use of chrome books, and all the issues with MCPS is better? Nope! Old money families - who cares.

Yes, way better

Not our experience with MCPS. Do you even pay attention to what your kids are doing and learning and how?

[Anonymous]

A quick scan of Bullis' faculty directory suggests that far from "most" teachers have PhDs. The leader of the school, however, does have an EdD from the tied at #191-ranked Nova Southeastern University. And bonus, a building named after him which as far as I know is unheard of in academics, secondary or otherwise. Sounds like an awesome place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have another child in public but not at WJ. Besides smaller class sizes and the qualifications of the faculty, the biggest improvement is the honor code. Students can be expelled for bullying, sexual harassment, and racial slurs.

This winter I was watching a basketball game between two MCPS middle schools. Apparently, one of the MCPS middle schools had taken in a former Bullis student who had been expelled from Bullis for racial slurs. Whenever he would touch the ball, the fans of the other MCPS middle school would chant:

"Let's go Bullis"
"Let's go Bullis"

No its not really relevant to this thread, but I enjoyed watching the kids take on racial issues on their own.

Exactly. I always feel better after I've observed a crowd taunt a pre-teen. That and kittens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I have another child in public but not at WJ. Besides smaller class sizes and the qualifications of the faculty, the biggest improvement is the honor code. Students can be expelled for bullying, sexual harassment, and racial slurs.

This winter I was watching a basketball game between two MCPS middle schools. Apparently, one of the MCPS middle schools had taken in a former Bullis student who had been expelled from Bullis for racial slurs. Whenever he would touch the ball, the fans of the other MCPS middle school would chant:

"Let's go Bullis"
"Let's go Bullis"

No its not really relevant to this thread, but I enjoyed watching the kids take on racial issues on their own.

Exactly. I always feel better after I've observed a crowd taunt a pre-teen. That and kittens.

I'm not sure what the relevance is of mentioning kittens. But there are consequences for making racial slurs that go beyond being expelled from a private school. The pre-teen crowd at the MCPS school wasn't retaliating with their own racial slurs, but they were judging the former Bullis kid fpr his actions in a very creative and completely non-threatening way. Most of the adults attending did not know why there were cheers for Bullis at a game between two MCPS schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis is small. WJ is large. WJ areas will get rezoned to Woodward HS in several years. Bullis you don't have to worry about rezoning. The grounds are nicer in Bullis (because you are paying for it), and the surrounding area has a more suburban feel. I'm not pro/con for either schools but these are the differences.

Was just at two meetings in the last 5 days. That may not happen.

? Which part.. Bullis rezoning or areas that feed into WJ not rezoning to Woodward?

WH rezoning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis is small. WJ is large. WJ areas will get rezoned to Woodward HS in several years. Bullis you don't have to worry about rezoning. The grounds are nicer in Bullis (because you are paying for it), and the surrounding area has a more suburban feel. I'm not pro/con for either schools but these are the differences.

Was just at two meetings in the last 5 days. That may not happen.

? Which part.. Bullis rezoning or areas that feed into WJ not rezoning to Woodward?

WH rezoning.

Who is telling you this? And if no WJ rezoning, what's the solution for the overcrowding?