What do people think of Einstein?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Thanks. She does like her APUSH teacher. That is by far the best class she has and she has signed up for a rigorous schedule next year (as much as that is possible).

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Anonymous wrote:Oh don't get me started - especially on greatschools.org and how they punished a bunch of non-W schools for their "equity" measurements, which couldn't even apply to W schools in the first place because of the lack of economic diversity.

Check out niche.com, an alternative ratings site, which gives only slightly lower grades to east county schools than west county.

Go to Maryland Report Card and look at the test scores and percentage of kids that attend college while filtering for different demographics. When you compare students by race and income, the W schools are actually not the cream of the crop, not even close. They need to change the way they rate schools so that it is reflective of this and not just a way of telling which school has more poor or white students.

You have different populations of rich and poor. Many of the "poor" kids parents didn't go to college and don't understand the process or many other things given they may be 1st generation and live in a very different world. That doesn't make those kids less smart because their English isn't good enough to take regular standardized tests or maybe they didn't get an ES education in their home country. But, we get it. You define good by race, money, and other characteristics. Its ok but don't bash schools you have no direct knowledge of.

Many of us in the Einstein cluster do very well financially but we don't need big showy houses and live within our means. Rather than pressuring our kids to get merit aid or other financial aid for college, we can comfortably pay because we spent 1/2-1/3 of the money you spent on your house on the same income. We truly value our kids future by setting them up for success without loans or other barriers starting out their adult lives.

If you think most people at W schools live in big, showy houses, you clearly haven't spent much time there. Now, some of the shi!t shacks people live in can be relatively expensive, but they ain't showy.

Point is you are paying $1 million for your sh@t shack and we are paying $500K for ours and have that extra money for college and grad school while you are begging for merit scholarships and feeling stressed in paying for college.

Well that is a different point than your unfounded claim that people "need big showy houses." In addition to other problems with your logic, you also ignore that the added money spent on housing generally is recouped when the house is sold, meaning such a family likely would also be able to help their kids starting out.

Why worry about selling a house if you move if you have no plans to move? You also have to hope your house increases in value. I would not sell my kids home to pay for college. They still need a home.

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Our son attends a W school and we hadn't heard about any of this. Can you give us some examples?

If you haven’t heard of the racist incidents at W schools, you’re not paying attention. I’m not even from Montgomery County at all and I’ve heard of numerous racist incidents at Whitman.

The black student body at Whitman created a Instagram called “Blackatwhitman” a place where black students share their racist trauma. This page has over 150 post. Apparently the white kids at Whitman like to refer black students “Group Home Kids”, Disgusting.

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Our son attends a W school and we hadn't heard about any of this. Can you give us some examples?

If you haven’t heard of the racist incidents at W schools, you’re not paying attention. I’m not even from Montgomery County at all and I’ve heard of numerous racist incidents at Whitman.

The black student body at Whitman created a Instagram called “Blackatwhitman” a place where black students share their racist trauma. This page has over 150 post. Apparently the white kids at Whitman like to refer black students “Group Home Kids”, Disgusting.

Another post is by a black female student getting on the bus. There was hardly any seating. So she decided to sit with 2 white students when the bus started to move. The white students refuse to let her sit with them. So she force her way in. The 2 gentlemen were not happy about this and started to talk about her. One of them said “ She’s s*it. I mean look at her, she’s literally sh *t”. Both students laughed at that joke. When you come on DCUM you can see the apples don’t fall far from the tree.

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Our son attends a W school and we hadn't heard about any of this. Can you give us some examples?

If you haven’t heard of the racist incidents at W schools, you’re not paying attention. I’m not even from Montgomery County at all and I’ve heard of numerous racist incidents at Whitman.

The black student body at Whitman created a Instagram called “Blackatwhitman” a place where black students share their racist trauma. This page has over 150 post. Apparently the white kids at Whitman like to refer black students “Group Home Kids”, Disgusting.

Kids behave that way as either their parents do or uninvolved parents. I went to one of these schools years ago. No way I’d send mine even though we could afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Looking at the AEHS Course Offerings for next year, I see it does include both on-level and Honors Chemistry. I don't see on-level Biology or Physics.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Looking at the AEHS Course Offerings for next year, I see it does include both on-level and Honors Chemistry. I don't see on-level Biology or Physics.

Interesting. Is there still pre-IB Biology and/or pre-IB physics?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Looking at the AEHS Course Offerings for next year, I see it does include both on-level and Honors Chemistry. I don't see on-level Biology or Physics.

Interesting. Is there still pre-IB Biology and/or pre-IB physics?

No. The IB course pathway has students taking Honors Biology in 9th, then Honors Chemistry in 10th, then the IB science classes are in 11th and 12th:
IB Physics SL or HL
IB Biology SL or HL
IB Chemistry SL
IB Environmental SL
IB Sports, Exercise and Health SL

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Looking at the AEHS Course Offerings for next year, I see it does include both on-level and Honors Chemistry. I don't see on-level Biology or Physics.

Interesting. Is there still pre-IB Biology and/or pre-IB physics?

No. The IB course pathway has students taking Honors Biology in 9th, then Honors Chemistry in 10th, then the IB science classes are in 11th and 12th:
IB Physics SL or HL
IB Biology SL or HL
IB Chemistry SL
IB Environmental SL
IB Sports, Exercise and Health SL

Got it. Did they get rid of pre-IB English as well?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really sorry to hear about the PP whose 9th grader is not happy with the online classes and teachers. I am the parent of a recent grad. I highly recommend that your child sign up for as many AP classes as possible in the future. The previous principal eliminated on-level chemistry; so Honors Chemistry is now for all. I don't know if other on-level classes were also eliminated. None of this was announced; you have to ask a lot of questions to figure it out. Anyway, my DC loved all of their AP teachers and many of the others. It really helps to chat up the other parents to find out who the really great teachers are. When your child gets his schedule, if he has some of the teachers without a great reputation, try to come up with a reason to switch. You have to come up with a better reason than "I don't like this teacher."

Looking at the AEHS Course Offerings for next year, I see it does include both on-level and Honors Chemistry. I don't see on-level Biology or Physics.

Interesting. Is there still pre-IB Biology and/or pre-IB physics?

No. The IB course pathway has students taking Honors Biology in 9th, then Honors Chemistry in 10th, then the IB science classes are in 11th and 12th:
IB Physics SL or HL
IB Biology SL or HL
IB Chemistry SL
IB Environmental SL
IB Sports, Exercise and Health SL

Got it. Did they get rid of pre-IB English as well?

They do have AEHSIB English 9 and 10.

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NP: I’m an alumni interviewer for my elite alma mater, and I used to live in Bethesda and now I live in Silver Spring. There are obviously many correlating factors, but the kids assigned to me from the W schools when I lived in Bethesda we’re so much more articulate, confident, and polished than the kids assigned to me now, including a lot of Einstein seniors.

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Anonymous wrote:NP: I’m an alumni interviewer for my elite alma mater, and I used to live in Bethesda and now I live in Silver Spring. There are obviously many correlating factors, but the kids assigned to me from the W schools when I lived in Bethesda we’re so much more articulate, confident, and polished than the kids assigned to me now, including a lot of Einstein seniors.

This.

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I’m alumni interviewer PP, and I’ll add additional context that, correlating factors (including socioeconomic) aside, this has given me the perception that the college counseling/preparation is much better at the W schools versus Einstein. My skin the game is that I have a young daughter, and we’re currently zoned for Einstein, so I’m genuinely interested in how the students at the school are doing. I attended a middling public school for high school, and it was tough: there were very limited resources for things such as college admissions prep.

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And sorry for all the typos 😩

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m alumni interviewer PP, and I’ll add additional context that, correlating factors (including socioeconomic) aside, this has given me the perception that the college counseling/preparation is much better at the W schools versus Einstein. My skin the game is that I have a young daughter, and we’re currently zoned for Einstein, so I’m genuinely interested in how the students at the school are doing. I attended a middling public school for high school, and it was tough: there were very limited resources for things such as college admissions prep.

Why are you assuming that that counseling is happening at school? Wealthier families are much more able to hire college admissions consultants, etc. MCPS counseling staff don't have much ability/time to make their students look "polished" (whatever that means).