What are W schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

1/2 of mass ave goes to BCC

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

Ethical people?!? So the only ethical thing is to make affluent people live among the have-nots so they stand a better chance of to mooch off them? If that is the case let’s take it a step further and say every white person who’s grandparent bought a house in a white neighborhood with the GI bill and used their equity to pay for colleges, weddings, bail or private schools need to move to a poor black neighborhood and start over to truely earn the moral high ground they are spewing from.

Sorry life has winners and losers and the losers rarely get invited to the after-party (except in rugby)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

You’re not explaining.

You’re projecting.

[Anonymous]

Well, I see this has taken an angry turn. I hope I haven’t contributed too much. I am here to represent the following population, which exists: families who value education, who are middle and upper middle class, whose children are happy and doing well in schools that are not majority white or wealthy. You guys can like your schools and we can like ours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I see this has taken an angry turn. I hope I haven’t contributed too much. I am here to represent the following population, which exists: families who value education, who are middle and upper middle class, whose children are happy and doing well in schools that are not majority white or wealthy. You guys can like your schools and we can like ours.

Thank you. We're right there with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

Weird I thought BCC was kind of 3rd rate these days. I mean seriously it's what a GS 7 for academics. Really need to get over it already.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

Weird I thought BCC was kind of 3rd rate these days. I mean seriously it's what a GS 7 for academics? Hardly worth boasting about. Really need to get over it already.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

Weird I thought BCC was kind of 3rd rate these days. I mean seriously it's what a GS 7 for academics? Hardly worth boasting about. Really need to get over it already.

no one really cares about school quality. What they really care about is school dynamics and people with options simply don't wan't a bunch of poor (or poorly parented) kids running around with their feet up on chairs and dine and dashing.

The reason the DCC parents of the world detest the Ws so much are 1) Jealousy 2) the thought that those parents paid so much money to avoid them and their kids. Paying 2x the price for 1/2 the house tells you what they really think of silver spring kids

[Anonymous]

Or it's about being in a school they perceive as good, and nothing to do with your kids. Both BCC and WJ are diverse schools, racially and socioeconomically. But, you keep saying that "they" don't want to be around "them" and see where that gets you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or it's about being in a school they perceive as good, and nothing to do with your kids. Both BCC and WJ are diverse schools, racially and socioeconomically. But, you keep saying that "they" don't want to be around "them" and see where that gets you.

BCC: 57% white, 11% FARMs
Johnson: 54% white, 8% FARMs
MCPS high school overall: 30% white, 27% FARMs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

Weird I thought BCC was kind of 3rd rate these days. I mean seriously it's what a GS 7 for academics? Hardly worth boasting about. Really need to get over it already.

no one really cares about school quality. What they really care about is school dynamics and people with options simply don't wan't a bunch of poor (or poorly parented) kids running around with their feet up on chairs and dine and dashing.

The reason the DCC parents of the world detest the Ws so much are 1) Jealousy 2) the thought that those parents paid so much money to avoid them and their kids. Paying 2x the price for 1/2 the house tells you what they really think of silver spring kids

Actually, no. It's that I think unexamined bias at best and outright racism at worst are not good things to perpetuate in our society. Also, I dislike snobs.

And to the PP who keeps screeching about PG county: it's not remotely convenient for our commutes, so why would be live there?

[Anonymous]

Op do you get it now ?? w school mean bigots, per the non w school people posting here.

Can always go to private schools, he no. W school people would really loathe you then.

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Anonymous wrote:The crabs in the bucket mentality in this thread is sad. With a few exceptions, real rich people are not sending their kids to public schools. I see a bunch of middle class people (LMC to UMC, but middle class nonetheless) at each other's throats bickering about percentage points in diversity and taking umbrage that a school another middle class person is zoned for is overcapacity by hundred students more.

Direct your ire to the Chevy Chase Club and Georgetown Prep, not some family paying $4,000/month to live in what a lot of truly rich people consider a teardown off of Massachusetts Avenue so their kid can go to Whitman.

Paying a premium with the hopes of having a public good (public education) differentiated in your favor is disgusting.

Taking a discount with the hope the marginal local schools will offer “enrichment” isolation to replicate a higher SES environment for your otherwise normal kid is hypocritical and pathetic . You’re a bigot too just with a smaller bank account. All those silver spring people who took a 50% discount from BCC but paid 50% more not to be in PG are just lying to themselves while acting out a sour grades mob mentality.

I have no idea what *specific scenario* you are running in your head in response to my post.

No idea.

My guess is this:

Someone said everyone at BCC is a bigot trying to avoid the poors

Then someone said no, everyone in Silver Spring is a bigot too because they took a “discount” to live in place where their white kid is a bigger fish in a smaller pond, but they’re too bigoted to live in PG

And under this reasoning I figure that means everyone in PG is just too bigoted to live in SE DC. Basically the poster is saying that yeah the rich and white may be paying to isolate themselves but that is just human nature and we all suck. It’s what unethical people usually believe.

Weird I thought BCC was kind of 3rd rate these days. I mean seriously it's what a GS 7 for academics? Hardly worth boasting about. Really need to get over it already.

no one really cares about school quality. What they really care about is school dynamics and people with options simply don't wan't a bunch of poor (or poorly parented) kids running around with their feet up on chairs and dine and dashing.

The reason the DCC parents of the world detest the Ws so much are 1) Jealousy 2) the thought that those parents paid so much money to avoid them and their kids. Paying 2x the price for 1/2 the house tells you what they really think of silver spring kids

Actually, no. It's that I think unexamined bias at best and outright racism at worst are not good things to perpetuate in our society. Also, I dislike snobs.

And to the PP who keeps screeching about PG county: it's not remotely convenient for our commutes, so why would be live there?

Good the snobs dislike you and your kids, everyone is in agreement. What I don’t get it why you are so desperate to force them to pull your area up when it is you holding your area back. It isn’t a spot, it’s the people.