Best elementary school for a STEM gifted child?

[Anonymous]

The Blair magnet is not actually the best for STEM. It is very engineering focused but the Poolesville magnet is better for life sciences.

The hands down best magnet in the area is TJ over in VA. None of the MCPS magnets come close to it in quality, prestige or programming.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow!
W parents are going crazy. They don't know what to do. Before they could only point at the SAT scores to show that they are better than Blair. Now that Blair scores have shoot up, they are sh$##ing on themselves now that their only advantage has disappeared.

NMSF ? Nope
Presidential ? Nope
Science bowls ? Nope
Siemens ? Nope
Science olympiads ? Nope
Math olympiads ? Nope
Intel/Regeneron scholars ? Hell no

What are they good at actually ? ??

Oh, oh, oh! I know. Call on me! Call on me!

Casual racism and classism.

Sad but true

I wonder if Blair was so great why it is the poor people who go there? If the W parents wanted to go there they would bid up Blair houses and price out all the creepy residents. But that doesn’t happen. Hummmm I wonder why ??? Striver

This post right here is the perfect example of what the W schools are good at...Racism and classism
Couldn't make this up

Whatever that post is, it does not change the fact that Blair is not as good a HS as the Ws.

It is as simple as that.

LOL
Blair is way better than the W's.
Blair has more of the above than all the W combined.
It's as simple as that.

Looking at hard facts it sure looks that way.

Blair magnet has.

Not the rest of the Blair, which is what we are talking about.

If you want to talk about irrelevant issues, that is fine. I am happy to see you trying to create illusions to deceive yourself. Apparently the OP already made the right choice.

This thread is about STEM
Look at the title.

Yes, look at the title.
We are not here ranking HS STEM programs.

We are helping the OP to choose the right ES.
Which means: if the kid does not get into the magnet, this ES should eventually feed the kid to somewhere strong in STEM.
For that, we compare (the part of) schools kids can get in by living there. The magnet part of Blair does not come into play in this discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair magnet is not actually the best for STEM. It is very engineering focused but the Poolesville magnet is better for life sciences.

The hands down best magnet in the area is TJ over in VA. None of the MCPS magnets come close to it in quality, prestige or programming.

But the OP is asking about MoCo.

And I would not consider Blair magnet to be Engineering focussed. A comparison of Wheaton engineering magnet's course offerings with Blair's is instructive. Most of Blair's magnet courses are in science, math and computer science.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow!
W parents are going crazy. They don't know what to do. Before they could only point at the SAT scores to show that they are better than Blair. Now that Blair scores have shoot up, they are sh$##ing on themselves now that their only advantage has disappeared.

NMSF ? Nope
Presidential ? Nope
Science bowls ? Nope
Siemens ? Nope
Science olympiads ? Nope
Math olympiads ? Nope
Intel/Regeneron scholars ? Hell no

What are they good at actually ? ??

Oh, oh, oh! I know. Call on me! Call on me!

Casual racism and classism.

Sad but true

I wonder if Blair was so great why it is the poor people who go there? If the W parents wanted to go there they would bid up Blair houses and price out all the creepy residents. But that doesn’t happen. Hummmm I wonder why ??? Striver

This post right here is the perfect example of what the W schools are good at...Racism and classism
Couldn't make this up

Whatever that post is, it does not change the fact that Blair is not as good a HS as the Ws.

It is as simple as that.

LOL
Blair is way better than the W's.
Blair has more of the above than all the W combined.
It's as simple as that.

Looking at hard facts it sure looks that way.

Blair magnet has.

Not the rest of the Blair, which is what we are talking about.

If you want to talk about irrelevant issues, that is fine. I am happy to see you trying to create illusions to deceive yourself. Apparently the OP already made the right choice.

This thread is about STEM
Look at the title.

Yes, look at the title.
We are not here ranking HS STEM programs.

We are helping the OP to choose the right ES.
Which means: if the kid does not get into the magnet, this ES should eventually feed the kid to somewhere strong in STEM.
For that, we compare (the part of) schools kids can get in by living there. The magnet part of Blair does not come into play in this discussion.

I think this started when one poster stated that some W feeders were vastly better and offered HS SAT averages as proof of their claim. Then several other posters dug a little deeper and found their data was out of date and misleading and in fact the real STEM schools actually do as well or better. This hasn't sat well with some parents, but the facts were clear cut.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow!
W parents are going crazy. They don't know what to do. Before they could only point at the SAT scores to show that they are better than Blair. Now that Blair scores have shoot up, they are sh$##ing on themselves now that their only advantage has disappeared.

NMSF ? Nope
Presidential ? Nope
Science bowls ? Nope
Siemens ? Nope
Science olympiads ? Nope
Math olympiads ? Nope
Intel/Regeneron scholars ? Hell no

What are they good at actually ? ??

Oh, oh, oh! I know. Call on me! Call on me!

Casual racism and classism.

Sad but true

I wonder if Blair was so great why it is the poor people who go there? If the W parents wanted to go there they would bid up Blair houses and price out all the creepy residents. But that doesn’t happen. Hummmm I wonder why ??? Striver

This post right here is the perfect example of what the W schools are good at...Racism and classism
Couldn't make this up

Whatever that post is, it does not change the fact that Blair is not as good a HS as the Ws.

It is as simple as that.

LOL
Blair is way better than the W's.
Blair has more of the above than all the W combined.
It's as simple as that.

Looking at hard facts it sure looks that way.

So true, and that gonzo W troll probably burst a blood vessel when it was shown that similar SES non-magnet groups at Blair outperform their W counterparts school hands down. Not to mention the school's overall average for 2018 was about 50 points higher than any W.

SATs used to be this was all W parents could talk about. Now the shoes on the other foot there's the neverending array of excuses from them, but I think that's one of the hallmarks of privilege.

It may very well be that the "non-magnet groups at Blair outperform their W counterparts school hands down" but no one has shown that in this discussion.

And the school's overall average being higher than any W - not a surprise as it includes the magnet cohort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair magnet is not actually the best for STEM. It is very engineering focused but the Poolesville magnet is better for life sciences.

The hands down best magnet in the area is TJ over in VA. None of the MCPS magnets come close to it in quality, prestige or programming.

Neither Poolesville or TJ garner anywhere near the recognition, awards, scholarships that Blair does and that's a matter of public record.

[Anonymous]

Its very insular to believe that Blair is more prestigious than TJ. TJ is known nation wide , Blair is not. TJ is consistently listed in the top 10 magnets in the countries. Blair never makes the list ever.

[Anonymous]

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I think this started when one poster stated that some W feeders were vastly better and offered HS SAT averages as proof of their claim. Then several other posters dug a little deeper and found their data was out of date and misleading and in fact the real STEM schools actually do as well or better. This hasn't sat well with some parents, but the facts were clear cut.

The facts were clear cut:

every year up to 2017 when MCPS has data (from MCPS website), Blair's average SAT is clearly lower than the Ws.

Someone had a document on Adobe Cloud, appearing to be a report from Blair showing its class 2018 has SAT average of 1318 (or something alike), which is about 150 higher that how Blair did in previous years. There is no other data on class 2018 in any other MoCo HS to compare with this number.

These are the facts.
You compare different schools in the same year. In any previous years, Blair is not as good as the Ws.
In 2018, Blair's (claimed to be by that Adobe CLoud doc) SAT has nothing to be compared with - no SAT results shown from any other schools in MoCo.

I don't see the logic in saying "Blair is much better" from any of these data.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair magnet is not actually the best for STEM. It is very engineering focused but the Poolesville magnet is better for life sciences.

The hands down best magnet in the area is TJ over in VA. None of the MCPS magnets come close to it in quality, prestige or programming.

LOL.
Blair magnet makes TJ look like third world.
Stay in VA. This is MoCo

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its very insular to believe that Blair is more prestigious than TJ. TJ is known nation wide , Blair is not. TJ is consistently listed in the top 10 magnets in the countries. Blair never makes the list ever.

You’re making TJ look bad. You're too clueless and ignorant to be a booster.
TJ wishes they have Blair's C/V

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneron_Science_Talent_Search

Stay in VA and let educated folks talk.

[Anonymous]

I’ve met many TJ grads whilst working in NY and in Silicon Valley tech. I never heard of Blair until reading dcum. I’ll look for it next time I go to the Wheaton Costco.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Blair magnet is not actually the best for STEM. It is very engineering focused but the Poolesville magnet is better for life sciences.

The hands down best magnet in the area is TJ over in VA. None of the MCPS magnets come close to it in quality, prestige or programming.

And that's why Blair, despite being a fraction of its size, somehow manages to win far more significant awards each year. Ooops I mean why TJ deosn't actualy compare at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its very insular to believe that Blair is more prestigious than TJ. TJ is known nation wide , Blair is not. TJ is consistently listed in the top 10 magnets in the countries. Blair never makes the list ever.

TJ is more a quantity of over quality type of thing.

[Anonymous]

Why can't the W's do better than Blair? Their non-magnet SAT average is only 1318?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve met many TJ grads whilst working in NY and in Silicon Valley tech. I never heard of Blair until reading dcum. I’ll look for it next time I go to the Wheaton Costco.

It figures.
You probably were not smart enough to go to Stuy or Bronx Science nor have any kids that made it there. They know about Blair.