What do people think of Einstein?

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why this devolved into a Kensington debate. There are a lot of other neighborhoods in Silver Spring that are zoned for Einstein, and plus you can choose Einstein in the DCC school choice program.

Kensington is peak middle class/upper middle class schism in MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure why this devolved into a Kensington debate. There are a lot of other neighborhoods in Silver Spring that are zoned for Einstein, and plus you can choose Einstein in the DCC school choice program.

Einstein threads always devolve into a Kensington debate. Generally a Kensington real estate debate.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids (number and %) get admitted to UMDCP from Einstein?

About 100 Einstein students apply to College Park each year, and 40-45 are accepted.

That is really poor performance compare to schools shown below.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/college-bound-4/

I'd want to make sure HS will prepare my kid for the next step. And given the cost of college, being able to get into the best instate option (UMDCP for us) is critical.

Actually if half get accepted fro Einstein that seems pretty comparable to the other schools. Of course loads of kids apply to high(er?) achieving colleges as well. It'a hard to know how many other schools Einstein kids apply to, but UMD is certainly the most common for all schools.

K-town insecurity in a nutshell:

Einstein parents = insecure hearing about poverty and low scores.
WJ parents = insecure hearing that a W school doesn’t provide an advantage in outcomes for motivated middle and upper middle class kids.

You clearly have no concept of the area. The Einstein folks in Kensington are not K-town.

We don't care about the "poverty" and low scores. We care our kids are happy and doing well.

I guess if I made my kids eat at McDonalds every day I would be telling other how well they walk so they must be healthy and I must be a good parent.

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This is where people who believe housing prices are all about schools fail. We chose to live in Einstein ‘despite our income’ because we love the neighborhood (not diverse) and have also become to love the diverse schools. We’ve learned that the lower average test score of the schools is just that - average score. Our kids are doing just fine academically, scoring in the 99th percentiles along with enough peers to form a group in class (according to their teachers). My guess is that there would be more of those high-scoring kids, less of the low-scoring kids in schools on the west side, but honestly at this point we don’t understand why it matters. Most friends and co-workers that we know who live in the B-CC, Whitman or Churchill area and send their kids to public schools bought their homes for less than we did. At least two families looked at our neighborhood but could not afford the homes that they liked - one is in Chevy Chase now, one in Bethesda (gave up on proximity to the metro and walkability to urban scenes, if you’re wrapping your head around the ‘how’). The few people we know who live in more expensive homes in those areas actually send their kids to private schools, another reason we like our neighborhood - plenty of neighbors who send their kids public and appreciate/support the diverse student demographics rather than scorn down on it.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids (number and %) get admitted to UMDCP from Einstein?

About 100 Einstein students apply to College Park each year, and 40-45 are accepted.

That is really poor performance compare to schools shown below.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/college-bound-4/

I'd want to make sure HS will prepare my kid for the next step. And given the cost of college, being able to get into the best instate option (UMDCP for us) is critical.

Actually if half get accepted fro Einstein that seems pretty comparable to the other schools. Of course loads of kids apply to high(er?) achieving colleges as well. It'a hard to know how many other schools Einstein kids apply to, but UMD is certainly the most common for all schools.

K-town insecurity in a nutshell:

Einstein parents = insecure hearing about poverty and low scores.
WJ parents = insecure hearing that a W school doesn’t provide an advantage in outcomes for motivated middle and upper middle class kids.

You clearly have no concept of the area. The Einstein folks in Kensington are not K-town.

We don't care about the "poverty" and low scores. We care our kids are happy and doing well.

I guess if I made my kids eat at McDonalds every day I would be telling other how well they walk so they must be healthy and I must be a good parent.

Wow. Look at you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is where people who believe housing prices are all about schools fail. We chose to live in Einstein ‘despite our income’ because we love the neighborhood (not diverse) and have also become to love the diverse schools. We’ve learned that the lower average test score of the schools is just that - average score. Our kids are doing just fine academically, scoring in the 99th percentiles along with enough peers to form a group in class (according to their teachers). My guess is that there would be more of those high-scoring kids, less of the low-scoring kids in schools on the west side, but honestly at this point we don’t understand why it matters. Most friends and co-workers that we know who live in the B-CC, Whitman or Churchill area and send their kids to public schools bought their homes for less than we did. At least two families looked at our neighborhood but could not afford the homes that they liked - one is in Chevy Chase now, one in Bethesda (gave up on proximity to the metro and walkability to urban scenes, if you’re wrapping your head around the ‘how’). The few people we know who live in more expensive homes in those areas actually send their kids to private schools, another reason we like our neighborhood - plenty of neighbors who send their kids public and appreciate/support the diverse student demographics rather than scorn down on it.

Did the same thing. Price wasn't a factor. We simply liked the area. Our kids have done great. In fact, the older one is going to an ivy. We coulnd't be happier.

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Anonymous wrote:How many kids (number and %) get admitted to UMDCP from Einstein?

About 100 Einstein students apply to College Park each year, and 40-45 are accepted.

That is really poor performance compare to schools shown below.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-magazine/college-bound-4/

I'd want to make sure HS will prepare my kid for the next step. And given the cost of college, being able to get into the best instate option (UMDCP for us) is critical.

Actually if half get accepted fro Einstein that seems pretty comparable to the other schools. Of course loads of kids apply to high(er?) achieving colleges as well. It'a hard to know how many other schools Einstein kids apply to, but UMD is certainly the most common for all schools.

K-town insecurity in a nutshell:

Einstein parents = insecure hearing about poverty and low scores.
WJ parents = insecure hearing that a W school doesn’t provide an advantage in outcomes for motivated middle and upper middle class kids.

You clearly have no concept of the area. The Einstein folks in Kensington are not K-town.

We don't care about the "poverty" and low scores. We care our kids are happy and doing well.

So uptight! I think K-town just stands for kensington. I'm an einstein parent and thought this was funny. What about the kensington folks who are zoned to BCC? They never seem to get into these dcum "debates".

NP: don't let anyone in Town of Kensington read this! That's K-Town, and it goes to WJ, which is why the BCC parents don't get involved in these debates.

K-Town is the "Black Lives Matter but don't do a boundary study that might actually force our kids to go to school with (not rich) Black kids" crowd.

Actually the other side is more Hispanic and there seems to be far more racism to Hispanics than Black/African American rights now. The issue with Einstein and the other schools is the Hispanics.

True about the Einstein demographics, but come on. K-Town aren't racist towards Black people but they are towards Hispanics? It's racism and classism, period.

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Einstein does not have a heroin issues like other high schools. Would much rather send my kid there than Rockville.

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We don't. Until we see or hear about another incident at the school.

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Haven't thought about it since the student showed a gun during zoom in the spring.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't thought about it since the student showed a gun during zoom in the spring.

You think rich kids don't have guns in their homes too?

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't thought about it since the student showed a gun during zoom in the spring.

You think rich kids don't have guns in their homes too?

Nice deflection. And having one and showing one during a live zoo class is apples and oranges. Everything Einstein is in the news it's gun related.

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Anonymous wrote:Haven't thought about it since the student showed a gun during zoom in the spring.

You think rich kids don't have guns in their homes too?

Nice deflection. And having one and showing one during a live zoo class is apples and oranges. Everything Einstein is in the news it's gun related.

Every time.

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https://www.fox5dc.com/news/security-at-albert-ein...ossible-ms-13-gang-retaliation

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-publ...jla.com/news/local/police-man-

sexually-assaults-15-year-old-girl-in-albert-einstein-high-school-copy-room

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/...ed-to-20-years-for-raping-two-

https://wjla.com/news/local/einstein-hs-student-ch...-lunch-break-classmate-charged

https://wjla.com/news/local/police-ms-13-member-ar...de-albert-einstein-high-school

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools...stolen-assault-rifle-in-trunk/

https://wjla.com/news/crime/albert-einstein-high-s...-accused-of-sexual-abuse-94854

https://wjla.com/news/local/md-teen-accused-of-sta...ok-post-details-suspects-anger

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bomb-threat-prompts-lo...-montgomery-county-high-school

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fox5dc.com/news/security-at-albert-ein...ossible-ms-13-gang-retaliation

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/montgomery-county-publ...jla.com/news/local/police-man-

sexually-assaults-15-year-old-girl-in-albert-einstein-high-school-copy-room

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/...ed-to-20-years-for-raping-two-

https://wjla.com/news/local/einstein-hs-student-ch...-lunch-break-classmate-charged

https://wjla.com/news/local/police-ms-13-member-ar...de-albert-einstein-high-school

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools...stolen-assault-rifle-in-trunk/

https://wjla.com/news/crime/albert-einstein-high-s...-accused-of-sexual-abuse-94854

https://wjla.com/news/local/md-teen-accused-of-sta...ok-post-details-suspects-anger

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/bomb-threat-prompts-lo...-montgomery-county-high-school

Not all of these are gun related but most are violent felonies.