Most Overrated High School Cluster

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Anonymous wrote:Blair

Blair take way too much pride in a few hundred kids who are mostly bused in and don't reflect the majority of the school be it demographically, scholastically or geographically. They don't put magnet programs in schools without problems. That is fine, just don't pretend you don't have a problem.

Poolesville was about to close due to lack of kids. Blair has the most kids in the county, I wonder what their problem was?

Whatever the “problem” was back in the 80s when the magnet started, how is it relevant some 40 years later?

DP. I guess you haven't seen Blair's school stats?

MCPS *could* have competed with TJ to have the best school in America, but chose not to. They put Magnets in the county corners. One did very well (Poolesville) and the other is an embarassment (Blair didn't even make the top STEM Schools list and is far down on the National Rankings). To be a top school, you need to walk-the-talk.

Are you really that dumb? or is the Blair envy really that strong?
If there is a school among those 3 you mentioned that "walks-the-talk", it is Blair.
The others may rank high and be "top school" on papers, but Blair is crushing it on the fields, IRL.
You cannot be that dumb, can you?

Ah the old Blair envy poster. You’re a weirdo and if you think you’re protecting your school instead of embarrassing yourself then you are mistaken. I’m happy your happy but the premises of trickle down education isn’t a thing and selectively comparing a few hand picked and sheltered kids out of thousands to entire school populations shows you’re just cherry picking a narrative. I guess that just shows the program worked to improve the schools local reputation to combat middle class flight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair

Blair take way too much pride in a few hundred kids who are mostly bused in and don't reflect the majority of the school be it demographically, scholastically or geographically. They don't put magnet programs in schools without problems. That is fine, just don't pretend you don't have a problem.

Poolesville was about to close due to lack of kids. Blair has the most kids in the county, I wonder what their problem was?

Whatever the “problem” was back in the 80s when the magnet started, how is it relevant some 40 years later?

DP. I guess you haven't seen Blair's school stats?

MCPS *could* have competed with TJ to have the best school in America, but chose not to. They put Magnets in the county corners. One did very well (Poolesville) and the other is an embarassment (Blair didn't even make the top STEM Schools list and is far down on the National Rankings). To be a top school, you need to walk-the-talk.

Are you really that dumb? or is the Blair envy really that strong?
If there is a school among those 3 you mentioned that "walks-the-talk", it is Blair.
The others may rank high and be "top school" on papers, but Blair is crushing it on the fields, IRL.
You cannot be that dumb, can you?

Ah the old Blair envy poster. You’re a weirdo and if you think you’re protecting your school instead of embarrassing yourself then you are mistaken. I’m happy your happy but the premises of trickle down education isn’t a thing and selectively comparing a few hand picked and sheltered kids out of thousands to entire school populations shows you’re just cherry picking a narrative. I guess that just shows the program worked to improve the schools local reputation to combat middle class flight.

No idea what you're going on about but the PP was correct. People like you just have a bad case of Blair envy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair

Blair take way too much pride in a few hundred kids who are mostly bused in and don't reflect the majority of the school be it demographically, scholastically or geographically. They don't put magnet programs in schools without problems. That is fine, just don't pretend you don't have a problem.

Poolesville was about to close due to lack of kids. Blair has the most kids in the county, I wonder what their problem was?

Whatever the “problem” was back in the 80s when the magnet started, how is it relevant some 40 years later?

DP. I guess you haven't seen Blair's school stats?

MCPS *could* have competed with TJ to have the best school in America, but chose not to. They put Magnets in the county corners. One did very well (Poolesville) and the other is an embarassment (Blair didn't even make the top STEM Schools list and is far down on the National Rankings). To be a top school, you need to walk-the-talk.

You need to put down the pipe and sober up. Poolesville has a fine program, but Blairs magnet stats overshadow Poolesville. There is no comparison between these programs. Pound for pound Blair wins far more than TJ and also has a higher SAT average. Last I knew TJ was at 1520 and Blair at 1530. Roughly 50% of Blairs magnet class are NMSF each year.

Blair SAT scores are not 1530, a tiny fraction of the school who are bused in from across the county with the specific goal to prop up test scores have an avg of 1500+ most years. Blair’s Ave SAT score is much, much lower and on par with the less regarded schools near it like Northwood even with the extra help of the magnet placement. One can only assume without those smart kids bussed in Blair’s avg is near the bottom of the county. TJ is an entire school avg with a much larger number of kids….which makes it actually impressive. Its weird you take so much pride in a few dozen Asian kids from Bethesda to the point you over look the other 3000 kids in the school and the real Blair with its 50% FARMs and sub-90% graduation rate. Those are the avg peer group at the school not some SAT wiz from Kensington with a 45 min bus ride every morning.

It's true the magnet's average SAT score was 1530. In my kid's demographic at Blair the average was 1326 which was higher than that demographic at any W.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Blair

Blair take way too much pride in a few hundred kids who are mostly bused in and don't reflect the majority of the school be it demographically, scholastically or geographically. They don't put magnet programs in schools without problems. That is fine, just don't pretend you don't have a problem.

Poolesville was about to close due to lack of kids. Blair has the most kids in the county, I wonder what their problem was?

Whatever the “problem” was back in the 80s when the magnet started, how is it relevant some 40 years later?

DP. I guess you haven't seen Blair's school stats?

MCPS *could* have competed with TJ to have the best school in America, but chose not to. They put Magnets in the county corners. One did very well (Poolesville) and the other is an embarassment (Blair didn't even make the top STEM Schools list and is far down on the National Rankings). To be a top school, you need to walk-the-talk.

Are you really that dumb? or is the Blair envy really that strong?
If there is a school among those 3 you mentioned that "walks-the-talk", it is Blair.
The others may rank high and be "top school" on papers, but Blair is crushing it on the fields, IRL.
You cannot be that dumb, can you?

Ah the old Blair envy poster. You’re a weirdo and if you think you’re protecting your school instead of embarrassing yourself then you are mistaken. I’m happy your happy but the premises of trickle down education isn’t a thing and selectively comparing a few hand picked and sheltered kids out of thousands to entire school populations shows you’re just cherry picking a narrative. I guess that just shows the program worked to improve the schools local reputation to combat middle class flight.

You, calling anybody weirdo, is the joke of the year.
Your bad case of Blair envy is incurable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The county released SAT averages by HS and demographic cohort a few years ago. By using race as a proxy for SES differences you could get a more nuanced sense of how these schools stack up. For example, the SAT average for the largest cohort common to these schools was,

Blair 1326
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Churchill 1257
Wheaton 1173

It’s so eye-opening to realize things aren't always as they seem. The info is on page 8 at this link.
https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Makes sense!

[Anonymous]

Are Blair parents really this consistently delusional? The fact that the school-within-a-school magnet program is housed within Blair tells you right off the bat there was a desire to paper over some serious under-achievement in the rest of the school population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Blair parents really this consistently delusional? The fact that the school-within-a-school magnet program is housed within Blair tells you right off the bat there was a desire to paper over some serious under-achievement in the rest of the school population.

It just tells us that you are clueless

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Blair parents really this consistently delusional? The fact that the school-within-a-school magnet program is housed within Blair tells you right off the bat there was a desire to paper over some serious under-achievement in the rest of the school population.

Not a Blair parent, but anyone who is not delusional knows that Blair is the crown jewel, the crème de la crème of the State.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are Blair parents really this consistently delusional? The fact that the school-within-a-school magnet program is housed within Blair tells you right off the bat there was a desire to paper over some serious under-achievement in the rest of the school population.

Actually, that's false. The PP who was posting about a cohort with a higher SAT average than any W was not talking about Asians so the magnet wasn't a factor. It's because Blair is just better than these other schools when you compare kids from similar backgrounds.

[Anonymous]

It's always Blair and the W's.