Don't buy in MoCo until the school redistricting is setled?

[Anonymous]

Better solution would be remedial HS. Pull troublemakers out of schools and put them in a tough live HS or a “trades” HS

Putting some token whites and Chinese in their serves no purpose other than inflating scores.

My niece went to a 90 percent black and Spanish school as a white person but was all AP and Honors in HS and her classes were mostly white and Asian. She graduate super high SAT score and went Ivy League yet her and her 10 percent did not help any black students and may have hurt them as best teachers thought AP and honors and they got shitty teachers

[Anonymous]

Trouble makers into a trade focused high school?
Nail salon training for the girls and bus driver education for boys

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Anonymous wrote:So let’s say rich kids in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac get sent to shit schools.

Why would they go? Tons of good private schools nearby. Or just buy a property in the area coded for their school and continue

Rich kids don't need to go anywhere or grow up

The rich kids I knew were all wild. They did ok in school, were very disrespectful to their teachers, bullied other kids, made sure others know what they own ( daddy is opthalmologist and owns his own business premises)
Parents paid for college, used connections to get them their first job, the first car they got was expensive so they crashed it, I could go on and on

Will busing the rich kids to Blair help the poor kids in Blair?

It would likely hurt Blair since it's average SAT score is about 50+ points higher for the largest cohort common to it and any W and even without the 35 magnet kids in that cohort it's around 30 points higher.

The point is it's a diverse school but anyone who wants to do well there is already doing well. Also, it isn't a school with highly concentrated poverty since its FARMS rate is comparable to that of the county.

You’re delusional if you think Blair has a higher SAT score average than Whitman.

Here's a recent report comparing moco high-school SAT averages by cohort. Comparing the largest cohort common to these schools we can see how well they actually stack up. Here's a shortlist from the county's report

Blair 1326.
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Poolesville 1259
Churchill 1257

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Apparently, the poster wasn't delusional since Blair's 1326 is greater than Whitman's 1299.

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Anonymous wrote:So let’s say rich kids in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac get sent to shit schools.

Why would they go? Tons of good private schools nearby. Or just buy a property in the area coded for their school and continue

Rich kids don't need to go anywhere or grow up

The rich kids I knew were all wild. They did ok in school, were very disrespectful to their teachers, bullied other kids, made sure others know what they own ( daddy is opthalmologist and owns his own business premises)
Parents paid for college, used connections to get them their first job, the first car they got was expensive so they crashed it, I could go on and on

Will busing the rich kids to Blair help the poor kids in Blair?

It would likely hurt Blair since it's average SAT score is about 50+ points higher for the largest cohort common to it and any W and even without the 35 magnet kids in that cohort it's around 30 points higher.

The point is it's a diverse school but anyone who wants to do well there is already doing well. Also, it isn't a school with highly concentrated poverty since its FARMS rate is comparable to that of the county.

You’re delusional if you think Blair has a higher SAT score average than Whitman.

Here's a recent report comparing moco high-school SAT averages by cohort. Comparing the largest cohort common to these schools we can see how well they actually stack up. Here's a shortlist from the county's report

Blair 1326.
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Poolesville 1259
Churchill 1257

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Apparently, the poster wasn't delusional since Blair's 1326 is greater than Whitman's 1299.

Thise are the average SAT scores of white students only. Half of the white students at Blair are in the competive magnet program. Some of them would probably be at Whitman if not in the Blair magnet!

The average SAT at Whitman is higher than Blair overall, as the link shows. Also, the average SAT at Whitman/BCC/other W schools is higher than Blair for FARMs and non-FARMs students.

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Anonymous wrote:So let’s say rich kids in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac get sent to shit schools.

Why would they go? Tons of good private schools nearby. Or just buy a property in the area coded for their school and continue

Rich kids don't need to go anywhere or grow up

The rich kids I knew were all wild. They did ok in school, were very disrespectful to their teachers, bullied other kids, made sure others know what they own ( daddy is opthalmologist and owns his own business premises)
Parents paid for college, used connections to get them their first job, the first car they got was expensive so they crashed it, I could go on and on

Will busing the rich kids to Blair help the poor kids in Blair?

It would likely hurt Blair since it's average SAT score is about 50+ points higher for the largest cohort common to it and any W and even without the 35 magnet kids in that cohort it's around 30 points higher.

The point is it's a diverse school but anyone who wants to do well there is already doing well. Also, it isn't a school with highly concentrated poverty since its FARMS rate is comparable to that of the county.

You’re delusional if you think Blair has a higher SAT score average than Whitman.

Here's a recent report comparing moco high-school SAT averages by cohort. Comparing the largest cohort common to these schools we can see how well they actually stack up. Here's a shortlist from the county's report

Blair 1326.
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Poolesville 1259
Churchill 1257

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Apparently, the poster wasn't delusional since Blair's 1326 is greater than Whitman's 1299.

It turns out that students from comparable SES backgrounds do well at all these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:So let’s say rich kids in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Potomac get sent to shit schools.

Why would they go? Tons of good private schools nearby. Or just buy a property in the area coded for their school and continue

Rich kids don't need to go anywhere or grow up

The rich kids I knew were all wild. They did ok in school, were very disrespectful to their teachers, bullied other kids, made sure others know what they own ( daddy is opthalmologist and owns his own business premises)
Parents paid for college, used connections to get them their first job, the first car they got was expensive so they crashed it, I could go on and on

Will busing the rich kids to Blair help the poor kids in Blair?

It would likely hurt Blair since it's average SAT score is about 50+ points higher for the largest cohort common to it and any W and even without the 35 magnet kids in that cohort it's around 30 points higher.

The point is it's a diverse school but anyone who wants to do well there is already doing well. Also, it isn't a school with highly concentrated poverty since its FARMS rate is comparable to that of the county.

You’re delusional if you think Blair has a higher SAT score average than Whitman.

Here's a recent report comparing moco high-school SAT averages by cohort. Comparing the largest cohort common to these schools we can see how well they actually stack up. Here's a shortlist from the county's report

Blair 1326.
Walter Johnson 1275
Wooton 1262
Poolesville 1259
Churchill 1257

https://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2017/1771102HS%20Princ_SAT%20Partic_Perf%20Class%20of%202017.pdf

Apparently, the poster wasn't delusional since Blair's 1326 is greater than Whitman's 1299.

Thise are the average SAT scores of white students only. Half of the white students at Blair are in the competive magnet program. Some of them would probably be at Whitman if not in the Blair magnet!

The average SAT at Whitman is higher than Blair overall, as the link shows. Also, the average SAT at Whitman/BCC/other W schools is higher than Blair for FARMs and non-FARMs students.

Sounds like someone has a bad case of Blair envy....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pay for private, you can afford it. That way you can comfortably self-segregate.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Better solution would be remedial HS. Pull troublemakers out of schools and put them in a tough live HS or a “trades” HS

Putting some token whites and Chinese in their serves no purpose other than inflating scores.

My niece went to a 90 percent black and Spanish school as a white person but was all AP and Honors in HS and her classes were mostly white and Asian. She graduate super high SAT score and went Ivy League yet her and her 10 percent did not help any black students and may have hurt them as best teachers thought AP and honors and they got shitty teachers

WTF??
YOur white neice was the only smart person other than the Asian and other white kids?
Racist much?

[Anonymous]

Back to the original question, if you wait to buy in MC until the school redistricting is settled, you will have a long wait.
1 - the report coming out this spring will not have recommendations;
2 - 3 new HSs coming online in 24 and 25 (Crown, Northwood and Woodward). Do you think they will adjust boundaries before then, and then again for these new HSs? (No way!)
3 - they havent even come out with any suggested changes and people are already raising money to fight the yet-to-be-proposed changes.

If you want to wait 4-5+ years, go for it. The rest of us are moving forward with our lives!

[Anonymous]

OP, everyone in the area is redistricting right now or in the planning process. You will be fine. Fairfax is redistricting through the OneFairfax campaign, Howard County redistricted and that threw its county into national spotlight, other NoVa areas are looking at redistricting as well. You will be fine, but one thing to note is that prices will be on the rise in MoCo and PgCo because of the Purple Line project. The state of MD is putting $2.48 Billion dollars into this project to make commuting much more accessible rather than by car. MD is also trying to expand the highways.

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/departments/facilities/construction/studies/PurpleLineSSIMS.pdf

[Anonymous]

If values are going up then where are the "good" areas near the stations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If values are going up then where are the "good" areas near the stations?

What's your definition of "good"?

[Anonymous]

Good would be high test scores, solid teachers, paths to high schools which prepare kids for college and are diverse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If values are going up then where are the "good" areas near the stations?

I would look near the Bethesda Metro and Connecticut Avenue stations, or any of the stations from 16th Street/Woodside to Manchester Place.

https://www.purplelinemd.com/component/jdownloads/send/16-maps/318-station-features

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Anonymous wrote:If values are going up then where are the "good" areas near the stations?

I would look near the Bethesda Metro and Connecticut Avenue stations, or any of the stations from 16th Street/Woodside to Manchester Place.

https://www.purplelinemd.com/component/jdownloads/send/16-maps/318-station-features

It's a fine area but it's already on the higher end so not a lot of room for growth.