What is going on with Lakelands and Kentlands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

Whitman wasn't ranked. Explain that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who live in the Kentlands / Lakelands area, do the majority not commute into DC? If you do the commute, do you drive, or take MARC? How is it? (I'm not asking to be snarky, I am genuinely asking because we're starting to look at our options)

I can't speak for my neighbors, but I commute to McLean. It takes 30-35 min in the morning and 45-50 min in the evening. DH commutes to Columbia and it's 30 min each way. A commute into DC would be easy on Metro or MARC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

We're aware that's your stance. Prove it with data that disaggregates by race to demonstrate that each racial group performs worse in QO than in those other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

We're aware that's your stance. Prove it with data that disaggregates by race to demonstrate that each racial group performs worse in QO than in those other schools.

It's not a "stance." It's a fact. Do your own research and do it by your own crazy metric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

We're aware that's your stance. Prove it with data that disaggregates by race to demonstrate that each racial group performs worse in QO than in those other schools.

It's not a "stance." It's a fact. Do your own research and do it by your own crazy metric.

I did do research. I posted USNWR rankings, in which QO is ranked #5 in MD and Whitman is unranked. There are also Niche rankings, which have QO at number 9 with an A ranking, not far behind the schools with A+ rankings.

Do you have data to counter these claims, or will you simply keep replying with "you're wrong"?

[Anonymous]

Sorry -- QO has an A+ ranking, too. It's #9 in MCPS and #16 in MD.

And before someone says it, Niche is based on more than reviews. Read the methodology section of the website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who live in the Kentlands / Lakelands area, do the majority not commute into DC? If you do the commute, do you drive, or take MARC? How is it? (I'm not asking to be snarky, I am genuinely asking because we're starting to look at our options)

I can't speak for my neighbors, but I commute to McLean. It takes 30-35 min in the morning and 45-50 min in the evening. DH commutes to Columbia and it's 30 min each way. A commute into DC would be easy on Metro or MARC.

To where in DC? From Rockvile TC in can take almost an hour to Union on MARC. Or maybe you drive in at some ungodly hour?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who live in the Kentlands / Lakelands area, do the majority not commute into DC? If you do the commute, do you drive, or take MARC? How is it? (I'm not asking to be snarky, I am genuinely asking because we're starting to look at our options)

I can't speak for my neighbors, but I commute to McLean. It takes 30-35 min in the morning and 45-50 min in the evening. DH commutes to Columbia and it's 30 min each way. A commute into DC would be easy on Metro or MARC.

To where in DC? From Rockvile TC in can take almost an hour to Union on MARC. Or maybe you drive in at some ungodly hour?

Shady Grove to Metro Center is 37 min. DH has done it a lot and said it’s no big deal.

[Anonymous]

Love this neighborhood, so unique and I would love to live there but we are already settled in our neighborhood a few minutes down the road. Not sure why there is so much hate on Kentlands or QO, many in this area would kill to be districted there. Maybe the scores aren't the best in the state, but it is always ranked at the top. Wish we could afford a decent SFH there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

All of these schools, except Wooton, aren't as good as Baltimore City POLY though, so...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You've got to stop clinging to the one time ranking in US News and World Report. Yes, it was exciting because QO never makes this list but the achievement is really short lived. QO scored pretty badly on the MD report card and only received a 66% while NW scored one point higher at 67%. Since all the schools are scored you can't count on inching up because BCC, Whitman and others didn't report scores so the bad score plus more competition will push you way farther back in the rankings.

If you want to boost QO, you need tp change your talking point as your ranking has just tanked. Start parroting how rankings don't matter.

That's cute. QO does poorly a lot because minority and poor students tend to do terrible on standardized tests because they are largely ESOL students. The diversity in QO isn't the neighborhoods(Kentlands and Lakelands and Darnestown are all around 80% white). Part of the district feeds from the other part of Gaithersburg and that tends to be the diversity. Most kids from educated families are just as good students as Whitman or churchill kids.

Let's state the fact: QO is mediocre. It is far below Whitman, Wootton and Churchill. And WJ and BCC.

All of these schools, except Wooton, aren't as good as Baltimore City POLY though, so...

LOL. That school is just like NW- scored high for its reputation, but very violent with fights and robberies. Stats don't lie, but stats sure aren't everything. Doubt a single person on this thread would send their DC to Baltimore Poly.

[Anonymous]

Are we allowed to like our neighborhoods and their schools?

Geez.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we allowed to like our neighborhoods and their schools?

Geez.

Nope. Not unless it’s upper NW or Potomac. Otherwise your neighborhood and your school suck and any data suggesting otherwise are wrong.