What are W schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

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Better parents

Nope

If you define either very involved or having money to ensure kids are taken care of... But go enjoy whatever

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect this is a troll post, but in case it's real...

OP, your daughter is going to love Einstein. Great school, great community!

OP here, I'm being completely genuine I promise, me and my daughter are both excited. Einstein is wonderful, I really do love the school, and it has a great dance program. I was truly curious about the W schools and why they are such a big thing.

They're a thing because people who spend more money to live in places like Potomac and Bethesda like to think the schools there are better, so they can justify in their minds why they paid more for their houses.

Of course we all know the scores are 100% correlated with SES and that there are many excellent schools in other parts of the county (aka Poolesville, QO, etc).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

I can believe that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Less gangs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are public schools in Montgomery County.

Walt Whitman
Winston Churchill
Thomas Wootten
Walter Johnson

Notice they all have a W in their name. They are on the West side of the county and tend to have less economic (and therefore racial) diversity than the other schools in the county.

Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

^^Wootton isn't that wealthy or white so how is it a W? also way too far up 270 to be considered elite. definitely placed in the middle class of MoCo.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

I know it's hard to believe, but not everyone in this area works in the District. Shocking, I know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are public schools in Montgomery County.

Walt Whitman
Winston Churchill
Thomas Wootten
Walter Johnson

Notice they all have a W in their name. They are on the West side of the county and tend to have less economic (and therefore racial) diversity than the other schools in the county.

Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

^^Wootton isn't that wealthy or white so how is it a W? also way too far up 270 to be considered elite. definitely placed in the middle class of MoCo.

wtf? look at the income bands. Average HHI for Wootton is the same or close as any of the other W's. If you're going to be nasty, at least be factually accurate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We can't afford to send my kids to a W school but I have nothing against them. If I could afford to send my kids there I would do it in a heartbeat.

I commend the parents who live in places like the townhouses & condos around Montgomery Mall, who will sacrifice living in a much larger home in a not-so-great school system, just to be able to send their kids to a better school.

While I can't send my kids to a W, I happen to agree with the poster who said that the majority of the "we hate W schools" comments come from parents who can't afford to send their children there & are envious/jealous.

I live in dss and never even think about w kids. Have no opinion either way.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Dear OP, Einstein is a great school! And has a few things that a W school don't have

1.Strong Dance and Theatre program
2. VAC
3. Talented student body
4. DIVERSITY

You and your daughter made a great choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are public schools in Montgomery County.

Walt Whitman
Winston Churchill
Thomas Wootten
Walter Johnson

Notice they all have a W in their name. They are on the West side of the county and tend to have less economic (and therefore racial) diversity than the other schools in the county.

Best performing student body on standardized tests, college entrance tests, AP tests, high honor role, etc.

Non-quantitatively speaking, they have very active student bodies, involved parents, pretty good teacher on whole, good college results.

All are large, 1500+ Student high schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They are public schools in Montgomery County.

Walt Whitman
Winston Churchill
Thomas Wootten
Walter Johnson

Notice they all have a W in their name. They are on the West side of the county and tend to have less economic (and therefore racial) diversity than the other schools in the county.

Best performing student body on standardized tests, college entrance tests, AP tests, high honor role, etc.

Non-quantitatively speaking, they have very active student bodies, involved parents, pretty good teacher on whole, good college results.

All are large, 1500+ Student high schools.

LOL

Where did you get the idea they have the best performing student bodies? That distinction is typically a competition among Blair, Poolesville, and WJ (on some metrics).

[Anonymous]

Look at the deciles of the whole school. The top two if not three quartiles are quite strong and consistent at W schools.