constant chatter about Montgomery County schools being better

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really trying to compare the most well-resourced school in DCPS to an entire neighboring school system??

Not understanding this comment. JR is not the most well-resourced school in DCPS, nor is the comparison to an entire neighboring school system.

I guarantee Whitman, Churchill and BCC have more resources than JR. They are great HSs...also, Blair Magnet and Poolesville Magnet are great too.

I just don't hear of many families that own a home in Upper NW moving to MOCO for schools. Many send their kids to privates...no doubt about that (but many MOCO parents do that as well)...but many also send their kids to JR and Walls.

I have known many families throughout the years, and my family was one of the many.
It's not a new thing, this has been going on for many years.

Perhaps our peer group are rich douchebags...because I have known of only 1 family that left DCPS at middle school for MOCO (none at HS). Many have left DCPS at MS and HS for STA, GDS, Sidwell, SJC, Gonzaga, etc....but they would never go through the effort to move from Upper NW DC to MOCO just to stay public. Many have remained at DCPS all the way through.

We're in NW and I can think of 3 families that have moved to MCPS without thinking very hard about it.

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JR kids don't take 15 APs. 7, 8 or 9 tops (plenty).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you really trying to compare the most well-resourced school in DCPS to an entire neighboring school system??

Not understanding this comment. JR is not the most well-resourced school in DCPS, nor is the comparison to an entire neighboring school system.

I guarantee Whitman, Churchill and BCC have more resources than JR. They are great HSs...also, Blair Magnet and Poolesville Magnet are great too.

I just don't hear of many families that own a home in Upper NW moving to MOCO for schools. Many send their kids to privates...no doubt about that (but many MOCO parents do that as well)...but many also send their kids to JR and Walls.

I have known many families throughout the years, and my family was one of the many.
It's not a new thing, this has been going on for many years.

Perhaps our peer group are rich douchebags...because I have known of only 1 family that left DCPS at middle school for MOCO (none at HS). Many have left DCPS at MS and HS for STA, GDS, Sidwell, SJC, Gonzaga, etc....but they would never go through the effort to move from Upper NW DC to MOCO just to stay public. Many have remained at DCPS all the way through.

We just moved into a house in Chevy Chase DC and the family in our new house has 3 kids 2 in Middle School & 1 HS and they moved MC this Summer. We asked them and they said they going into BCC cluster out of Deal/JR. We moved to Chevy Chase DC for Deal & JR but now that we in Deal we've had some honest convos about moving if we can afford it in a copule of years.

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Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

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Anonymous wrote:Not too many people move from MCPS to DCPS for a reason.

Yeah, home prices and space.

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DC is in 10th grade. He is ready for college already. I could care less what high school he attends; the closer to home the better. Some kids just don't need much, but I understand that some of you need to chase the schools.

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Of all the chatter I hear it is rarely MoCo being better. If this comment is made it is always by a MD friend who has no dcps experience.

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to DCPS - no teachers for some classes. I'm suer it happens at MCPS too. Eventually, they get one after a mediocre sub. Not blaming teachers/subs...the pay sucks.

I've had kids in MCPS for 15 years and have never heard of a teacherless class at one of my kids' schools.

My child in MCPS had no 8th grade science teacher for more 3 quarters last year. In fact, for about 2 months there wasn’t even a long term sub. The first month, there wasn’t a sub at all. Other teachers sat in the classroom, babysitting, during their planning periods. Sometimes the kids got sent to the gym. There was only instruction for about the first 6 weeks of the school year. Classes with teachers did experiments, but not my kid’s class.

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Anonymous wrote:Of all the chatter I hear it is rarely MoCo being better. If this comment is made it is always by a MD friend who has no dcps experience.

You know damn well that you're lying. This chatter has been going on in DC forever.

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Anonymous wrote:Im going to guess colleges will not give any additional thought to a privileged kid with resources at JR vs. BCC vs. Whitman.

Why should they?

Regional diversity- they want to say kids from DC attend their school.

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People feel good about where they send their kids to school.
Sounds like a win.
Here is an idea- stop only talking to your friends about your kids. Get a hobby. Then the comparison talking will stop.

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Anonymous wrote:Not too many people move from MCPS to DCPS for a reason.

Yeah, home prices and space.

Do you really think people in Bethesda cannot afford NW DC?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you really trying to compare the most well-resourced school in DCPS to an entire neighboring school system??

Of course not. OP is comparing to BCC, Whitman, Churchill, Wooten. The MCPS "peer schools" to JR.

I don't think the Ws are peers to JR. Maybe more like regular Blair.

It is tough because the Ws have way more resources than JR...but the top 30% at JR are demographic peers to the Ws. These are the kids taking 15 APs, running the debate club, the robotics team, rowing crew, etc.

If you are part of the 30%, (usually white and UMC, and yes, there are plenty of you at JR) you don’t even need to bother moving to MCPS. Your kid will do just fine at JR.

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Anonymous wrote:JR kids don't take 15 APs. 7, 8 or 9 tops (plenty).

Not true. My (formerly Wilson now JR) DC took 12 APs...most of their friends took at least 10. The tippy-top students (like, the top 3-4 students in the class) took 14-15.

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Not buying it. Even YHP and Stanford aren't looking for 14-15 APs. They're looking for academic depth and extra curricular accomplishment and at least 6 or 7 APs with scores of 5 or IBD points totals of 40+. Nobody does this at JR.