Wootton currently rated a 10 and Gaithersburg HS currently rated a 3…

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Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wooton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wooton.

You really haven't done much research when you can't even spell the name of the school. It's Wootton

With all disrespect intended.

Honest question. Why the disrespect? I moved to this neighborhood because the school was great and I knew it would provide a good education for my kids. And my kids are now in college and the education was exactly what I wanted. Why do you hate Wootton so much?

Because you can't even figure it out yourself.

No. Can you explain? Or are just going give random open-ended comments?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wooton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wooton.

You really haven't done much research when you can't even spell the name of the school. It's Wootton

With all disrespect intended.

Honest question. Why the disrespect? I moved to this neighborhood because the school was great and I knew it would provide a good education for my kids. And my kids are now in college and the education was exactly what I wanted. Why do you hate Wootton so much?

Because you can't even figure it out yourself.

No. Can you explain? Or are just going give random open-ended comments?

Did the misspelling in the original comment prevent you from grokking the content?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wooton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wooton.

You really haven't done much research when you can't even spell the name of the school. It's Wootton

With all disrespect intended.

Honest question. Why the disrespect? I moved to this neighborhood because the school was great and I knew it would provide a good education for my kids. And my kids are now in college and the education was exactly what I wanted. Why do you hate Wootton so much?

Because you can't even figure it out yourself.

No. Can you explain? Or are just going give random open-ended comments?

Did the misspelling in the original comment prevent you from grokking the content?

No. You said with all disrespect intended. And I'm asking why the disrespect? And you haven't answered that question.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wooton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wooton.

You really haven't done much research when you can't even spell the name of the school. It's Wootton

With all disrespect intended.

Honest question. Why the disrespect? I moved to this neighborhood because the school was great and I knew it would provide a good education for my kids. And my kids are now in college and the education was exactly what I wanted. Why do you hate Wootton so much?

Because you can't even figure it out yourself.

No. Can you explain? Or are just going give random open-ended comments?

Did the misspelling in the original comment prevent you from grokking the content?

No. You said with all disrespect intended. And I'm asking why the disrespect? And you haven't answered that question.

I just don't think nit picking about spelling is deserving of respect.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wooton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wooton.

You really haven't done much research when you can't even spell the name of the school. It's Wootton

With all disrespect intended.

Honest question. Why the disrespect? I moved to this neighborhood because the school was great and I knew it would provide a good education for my kids. And my kids are now in college and the education was exactly what I wanted. Why do you hate Wootton so much?

Because you can't even figure it out yourself.

No. Can you explain? Or are just going give random open-ended comments?

Did the misspelling in the original comment prevent you from grokking the content?

No. You said with all disrespect intended. And I'm asking why the disrespect? And you haven't answered that question.

I just don't think nit picking about spelling is deserving of respect.

Got it. It just seemed out of context when I mentioned the spelling and you said disrespect intended. Truthfully, that didn't make sense and still doesn't. But I'll accept your explanation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wootton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wootton.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

RM without IB will be no different or better than GHS.

RM is still better than GHS because it pulls from neighborhoods where the parents actually care about their kids education. Online GHS where parents do not even show up for the scheduled meetings for their kids.

Most parents care about their kids education. Many richer parents are checked out. Many don't bother to go to the teacher meetings, because we know the teachers aren't interested and its all superficial.

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Anonymous wrote:It will be simialr to RM.

RM as it is today with the county-wide IB program or the RM of the future without it?

RM without IB will be no different or better than GHS.

RM is still better than GHS because it pulls from neighborhoods where the parents actually care about their kids education. Online GHS where parents do not even show up for the scheduled meetings for their kids.

+1 Good gracious. Look at the scores at JWMS. Lots of people opining without any actual knowledge of the area.

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Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

This. What a dummy the OP is

[Anonymous]

I have two friends that are teachers at GHS. When you are at least an “ok” student who is not getting in trouble, skipping school or belittling your teachers-you will have a much higher grade for the same level of work than a Wootton student would have. This is simply because of your peer group. Your grades are higher because doing the literal bare minimum is so unexpected it stands out far more. So yeah, having great grades at GHS is pretty meaningless as compared to other high schools. So I guess if your kid is struggling and you are worried about them getting into college-it would be a great choice because they will have to do a lot less to succeed.

“the curriculum is the same in every school in the county” sure-but the way it is presented/graded etc…is definitely not the same.

[Anonymous]

The top 3% of the class getting blocked from Blair SMCS will give the school a boost.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So what do we think the new Crown High School will be rated? It will certainly not be a 10, so what are we thinking? 5, 6?

And before anyone jumps in that ratings don’t matter-they absolutely matter. Colleges look at them for one.

And MCPS seems to be absolutely fine losing the prestige of Wootton’s high performance.

My opinion of Wootton and MCPS is decreasing. What has become obvious is that they are basically cheating demographics to "fake" quality education. The school boundaries now aren't even contiguous.

I don't think it matters what the Good Schools ratings is.

A) The "neighborhood" isn't that great.
B) The education isn't that great.

It's over for Wootton.

(disrespectfully edited)

Yeah. It's clear you don't know squat about Wootton. Seriously, how many kids in MCPS graduate with over 10 AP credits?

Check out spotcrime.com. For a criminal I can see why a Wootton neighborhood may not be a fav'?

It's a good try though. Keep at it and someday you might make someone believe you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

This. What a dummy the OP is

I had a colleague claim college degrees didn't matter either (he didn't have one). Of course he left the job long ago. Also knew a PhD who got his degree from a no-name college in the middle of nowhere. It's embarrassing when he meets a real PhD from a good school and can't hold an intelligent conversation.

School rankings drive prosperity. Educated parents or parents who care about their children's education are drawn towards highly-ranked schools. Similarly, elite colleges keep an eye on high school rankings since schools that don't groom elite academic programs don't prepare their students well. Top schools don't want to waste their time teaching basics that a mediocre college can teach.

But that's not the MCPS CO. I've met a few MCPS Central Office staff that are pure prima donnas. They push their own personal social agendas into school politics and honestly are ruining the school system for all parents. Most of them are part of the "equity over equality" crowd that senior administration is afraid to fire. In my opinion, these folks push their personal agendas over their professional responsibilities as educators. They're dangerous and harmful to children's' futures.

I think this anti-academic attitude will spell the end of MCPS as a national-level school system. It will go the way of other public schools as "where poor people send their kids to keep them out of jail". Private schools will fill the void once that happens and, like many other public school districts, will likely never recover.

It's sad no one will stand up and fire these folks. It is what it is I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

An A+ at Wootton has far more relevance than an A+ at GHS. it’s just simply easier to have better scores when tests are graded on a curve to account for all the kids that fail. So yeah, graduating with a 4.0 at GHS is not nearly the same at graduating with a 4.0 at Wootton.

But a Wootton 4.0 kid is going to be fighting all the other Wootton 4.0 kids with the exact same profiles and the exact same interests for a finite number of college seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do these ratings come from? Specify the source.

Usually those are derived from test scores which are correlated with parent affluence.

So a lower rating will just mean you have a more demographically mixed school.

Colleges look at SAT and GPA. Affluent children at a demographically poorer school can still get high SATs. Maybe they will need more private tutoring.

A lower rating is based on test scores. Which is student performance. and yes, is directly impacted by family influence/involvement. The less family involvement in a school-the lower the score.

Niche/Great schools. everyone wants to say the ratings don’t matter but again-colleges DO in fact look at them.

Colleges do look at them, but not in the way you are insinuating. Attending a higher-ranked school does not improve your chances of admission, and a lower-ranked school does not lower them. If anything, it is the opposite. A kid coming out of a less-segregated school, with strong grades, extracurriculars, and test scores, is going to be prioritized over the 50th kid in the same cohort from a high ranked school, applying to the same schools, with the same course load, test scores, and extracurriculars.

This. What a dummy the OP is

I had a colleague claim college degrees didn't matter either (he didn't have one). Of course he left the job long ago. Also knew a PhD who got his degree from a no-name college in the middle of nowhere. It's embarrassing when he meets a real PhD from a good school and can't hold an intelligent conversation.

School rankings drive prosperity. Educated parents or parents who care about their children's education are drawn towards highly-ranked schools. Similarly, elite colleges keep an eye on high school rankings since schools that don't groom elite academic programs don't prepare their students well. Top schools don't want to waste their time teaching basics that a mediocre college can teach.

But that's not the MCPS CO. I've met a few MCPS Central Office staff that are pure prima donnas. They push their own personal social agendas into school politics and honestly are ruining the school system for all parents. Most of them are part of the "equity over equality" crowd that senior administration is afraid to fire. In my opinion, these folks push their personal agendas over their professional responsibilities as educators. They're dangerous and harmful to children's' futures.

I think this anti-academic attitude will spell the end of MCPS as a national-level school system. It will go the way of other public schools as "where poor people send their kids to keep them out of jail". Private schools will fill the void once that happens and, like many other public school districts, will likely never recover.

It's sad no one will stand up and fire these folks. It is what it is I guess.

I don't think they are pushing equity at all. They barely invest any money to support kids from low income families. They just create policies that use an equality framework - like the lack of discipline in schools or grade inflation - to act like they care about equity. They don't even know what equity means.