Dumb "W" school asking kids to wear their newly accepted College Shirts on May 1st

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all the MCPS focus this week on a plan for more inclusiveness, perhaps Principals should pause and consider the impact of certain traditions. Graduation is not always synonymous with going to college. It’s insensitive and stigmatizing to send out an email to all seniors asking them to wear a college shirt that represents where they are going next year. Why not ask students to wear a class of 2023 t-shirt that represents the entire class?

The bolded above is why parents want to send their children to certain high schools. It has nothing to do with wealth, the color of people's skin, or anything else. My children will be going to college, it's not optional, and I don't want them thinking otherwise.

Attending Whitman, Winston Churchill, or Wooton doesn’t guarantee that your child will be successful in college or even go to college. Some students need alternative pathways - same as any other MCPS school.

As a Churchill parent, I have seen the stresses the college search process puts on students let alone the competitive atmosphere and peer pressure that W students put on each other. The focus should be on finding the best fit for students after high school not one path that has no alternatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How to handle rejection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/style/college-rejection-parties.html

They should up come with special shirts for those parties. Rejected by HYPS. Waitlisted by Columbia. Sounds like a great business opportunity.

[Anonymous]

OP, curious what did your DC decide to do tomorrow? Skip school, go with school shirt, or go but not participate in shirt thing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all the MCPS focus this week on a plan for more inclusiveness, perhaps Principals should pause and consider the impact of certain traditions. Graduation is not always synonymous with going to college. It’s insensitive and stigmatizing to send out an email to all seniors asking them to wear a college shirt that represents where they are going next year. Why not ask students to wear a class of 2023 t-shirt that represents the entire class?

The bolded above is why parents want to send their children to certain high schools. It has nothing to do with wealth, the color of people's skin, or anything else. My children will be going to college, it's not optional, and I don't want them thinking otherwise.

Attending Whitman, Winston Churchill, or Wooton doesn’t guarantee that your child will be successful in college or even go to college. Some students need alternative pathways - same as any other MCPS school.

As a Churchill parent, I have seen the stresses the college search process puts on students let alone the competitive atmosphere and peer pressure that W students put on each other. The focus should be on finding the best fit for students after high school not one path that has no alternatives.

If anything it may be harder as so many smart kids competing for the same spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's kinda sad, OP, that kids would make snarky comments about someone going to UMD.

My kid wore a free UMD tshirt that they got at admitted students day to school, and yes, they are going to UMD. But, we are at RM, and many RMIB kids go to UMD, especially for STEM.

Yet another reason why I'm glad we did not choose a W school.

Congrats to your kid!

What is choose a W school? All you had to do was buy an expensive or little home? It's a real estate choice.

we could've "chosen" to buy in a W cluster. We bought several years ago, and we could afford it, but chose not to because I didn't want my kids around so much wealth. We actually bid on a house in the Churchill cluster, and the seller tried to get more from us, but we declined. They then came back to us and agreed on our original offer, but by then we had decided against this cluster after doing a bit more research.

Wealthy schools have its own problems, just like low income schools have its own problems.

Lots of kids at RMIB go to UMD, and the ones who go to an Ivy don't make any snarky comments about those who go to UMD.

Do you ever even think about what you say? Churchill has equal wealth so who are you kidding to claim you don't want your kids around that much wealth? You are the issue and the choices you make, not others so stop blaming others for your decisions. If you choose to buy your kid a $200 pair of sneakers vs. $50, that speaks to your choices, not others. Many of us can live in those areas but choose not to as its not the lifestyle we want and ironically those we know living those fancier lifestyles are either very wealth and can afford it or living pay check to pay check.

UMD is a great school and I don't get why people slam it.

RMIB is also a wealthier school. You are pretty clueless about wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With all the MCPS focus this week on a plan for more inclusiveness, perhaps Principals should pause and consider the impact of certain traditions. Graduation is not always synonymous with going to college. It’s insensitive and stigmatizing to send out an email to all seniors asking them to wear a college shirt that represents where they are going next year. Why not ask students to wear a class of 2023 t-shirt that represents the entire class?

The bolded above is why parents want to send their children to certain high schools. It has nothing to do with wealth, the color of people's skin, or anything else. My children will be going to college, it's not optional, and I don't want them thinking otherwise.

Attending Whitman, Winston Churchill, or Wooton doesn’t guarantee that your child will be successful in college or even go to college. Some students need alternative pathways - same as any other MCPS school.

As a Churchill parent, I have seen the stresses the college search process puts on students let alone the competitive atmosphere and peer pressure that W students put on each other. The focus should be on finding the best fit for students after high school not one path that has no alternatives.

If anything it may be harder as so many smart kids competing for the same spots.

Was it really any different in the past? There was less grade inflation so easier to differentiate students.

[Anonymous]

We’re in MCPS but not a W school. On the school’s college-acceptance Instagram page, there are lots of kids proudly committing to Montgomery College. They certainly don’t seem ashamed or crestfallen.

What a ridiculous thread. U MD is an excellent school; if your kid is ashamed to go there then they have internalized YOUR pain, OP - and it’s to their own detriment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re in MCPS but not a W school. On the school’s college-acceptance Instagram page, there are lots of kids proudly committing to Montgomery College. They certainly don’t seem ashamed or crestfallen.

What a ridiculous thread. U MD is an excellent school; if your kid is ashamed to go there then they have internalized YOUR pain, OP - and it’s to their own detriment.

Exactly. We're in a wealthy MCPS neighborhood and the kids on my street have gone on to average colleges. OP is creating problems where none exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’re in MCPS but not a W school. On the school’s college-acceptance Instagram page, there are lots of kids proudly committing to Montgomery College. They certainly don’t seem ashamed or crestfallen.

What a ridiculous thread. U MD is an excellent school; if your kid is ashamed to go there then they have internalized YOUR pain, OP - and it’s to their own detriment.

Exactly. We're in a wealthy MCPS neighborhood and the kids on my street have gone on to average colleges. OP is creating problems where none exist.

"Average" is very subjective. The professors you get make the difference in the education you receive, not the ranking in the school.

[Anonymous]

Our private does this and it's a celebration as part of the last few days of high school. By now the kids should know where they are going and have likely already told friends.

Help me understand why this is bad.

[Anonymous]

DP.

If there is a child who feels bad about not getting into college or not into the college of their choice that a child either they or their parents looked down upon as inferior to themselves; I can see why the OP would be angry.

If you want children to respect academics, let them feel pride in their achievements and respect the other children who worked hard for theirs.

This is a lesson in Life as much as anything, and I'm very sorry you can't be happy for the success of others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP.

If there is a child who feels bad about not getting into college or not into the college of their choice that a child either they or their parents looked down upon as inferior to themselves; I can see why the OP would be angry.

If you want children to respect academics, let them feel pride in their achievements and respect the other children who worked hard for theirs.

This is a lesson in Life as much as anything, and I'm very sorry you can't be happy for the success of others.

There are plenty of colleges that take the majority of kids that apply and many still have space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP,

My son graduated from that W school 3 years ago. We did not have a college sweatshirt that time (it was the peak COVID). We took a picture of him holding an MC logo and sent it to school.

I even bought an MC bumper stick and it is still on my car.

We just celebrated along with others who made into colleges that are a lot hard to get into

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our idiotic "W" school in MCPS has done it again. Such a disgusting place. Can't stand it anymore.

Dumb place sent out a notification for kids to wear their college sweatshirt to school on May 1st.

What is this? So kids can brag more about the swanky, expensive colleges they got into and make others feel badly who were waitlisted or had to take second choice? Yuck. I know I know - we bought here thinking it was a "good" School.. NO! A school of pushy, rude parents who only look out for number one. Themselves and their kids. It's awful.

What about a kid who may have to go to Montgomery College? What if someone isn't going to college? What if someone comes from low income housing and cannot afford college? What if What if What if?? Not bad in and of itself but geez. My kid is likely going to UMD and has already received a number of snarky comments. On waitlist that won't get off of while kid x, y, z parades in and out with a Michigan sweatshirt daily.

Why does this idiot school allow this? What is wrong with these people? Isn't the instagram they are exposed to daily bad enough???



Stop the madness. It's cruel to some of these kids who are not thrilled with college decision.

Why are you so upset? And why are you taking it so personal? Some kids might be happy for their friends or wouldn't care one iota. Might it be good to teach your kids to not be so affected by something so inconsequential as other people's college choice.

[Anonymous]

Op, doesn't your kid talk to anyone? Students have been talking, and sharing about college admissions for months.