How’s Sherwood?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

Come to Burtonsville! You’ll be welcomed with open arms.

I have family in burtonsville, if I moved there I would have to do private school. As I know from them the NEC is not a great choice. That’s why I looked at Olney.

I’m the Burtonsville poster. I have one child at Blake and another that’s graduating from Paint Branch in June. Both are great schools. The NEC (mainly Paint Branch) is always looked down on here for obvious reasons.

Not op but, Paint branch has a myriad of incidents and Blake too. What makes these “great schools.”

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

Come to Burtonsville! You’ll be welcomed with open arms.

If you are black Sherwood is probably last MCPS you want to consider. I agree with pp that burtonsville area school is better

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

Come to Burtonsville! You’ll be welcomed with open arms.

If you are black Sherwood is probably last MCPS you want to consider. I agree with pp that burtonsville area school is better

Honesty, neither are good.

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Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

Come to Burtonsville! You’ll be welcomed with open arms.

If you are black Sherwood is probably last MCPS you want to consider. I agree with pp that burtonsville area school is better

Honesty, neither are good.

Neither are good. True but one will be more tolerable to OP’s kid than the other

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

Come to Burtonsville! You’ll be welcomed with open arms.

If you are black Sherwood is probably last MCPS you want to consider. I agree with pp that burtonsville area school is better

Honesty, neither are good.

Neither are good. True but one will be more tolerable to OP’s kid than the other

OP ruled out northeast consortium schools and said she will go private. Probably the best choice overall.

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Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

Not at all, but there's no point in ignoring the reality. Who was wearing the confederate flag the PP referenced in the 80s? Students wearing Adidas track suits? The students wearing Benetton or Britches? Or the guys who dressed like country boys? Does that mean every person who wears this style is racist? No. But don't ignore reality. There are certain groups who will openly wear the confederate flag and we're not surprised when we see them dressed.

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How about QO?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh my. We are black, so i will definitely take this into consideration. Thank you 13:02

I’m Black, and I can also say I wouldn’t recommend you send your kid to Sherwood—only 15% Black, and my kid had many racist encounters. I also wouldn’t recommend the Northeast Consortium. If you can afford private, do it. I was faced with that decision last year.

Sherwood is roughly 48% white. If you’re solely considering a school based on the percentage of black students, which private has more than 15% of the population is black?

Dematha, Saint johns, Good counsel.

All 3 of those schools are nearly impossible to get into.

SJC had 1,700 applications for 300 seats.

GC had nearly 1k applicants.

Uncertain about exact #s for DeMatha, but they have a waitlist as well.

The private school forum is abuzz with parents whose straight A kids with high test scores didn’t get in.

But there might be small non-catholic privates (baptist, some other Christian sect) in PG that are easier to get into.

And the percentage of AA students is about the same as Sherwood, at SJC & GC.

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Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

Not at all, but there's no point in ignoring the reality. Who was wearing the confederate flag the PP referenced in the 80s? Students wearing Adidas track suits? The students wearing Benetton or Britches? Or the guys who dressed like country boys? Does that mean every person who wears this style is racist? No. But don't ignore reality. There are certain groups who will openly wear the confederate flag and we're not surprised when we see them dressed.

Having lived in the Sherwood area for almost 20 years, I have yet to see one confederate flag.

Lots of people commenting that have no idea.

Signed,
Parent of mixed raced children with culturally and religiously diverse neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about QO?

DC has friends there and it's very diverse and it sounds like a nice environment with a broad socieoeconomic mix. If you haven't ruled out Moco schools yet OP I'd look at QO, and the BCC (Wheaton, Einstein, Blair are considered the best there.)

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Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

Not at all, but there's no point in ignoring the reality. Who was wearing the confederate flag the PP referenced in the 80s? Students wearing Adidas track suits? The students wearing Benetton or Britches? Or the guys who dressed like country boys? Does that mean every person who wears this style is racist? No. But don't ignore reality. There are certain groups who will openly wear the confederate flag and we're not surprised when we see them dressed.

Having lived in the Sherwood area for almost 20 years, I have yet to see one confederate flag.

Lots of people commenting that have no idea.

Signed,
Parent of mixed raced children with culturally and religiously diverse neighbors.

So the point that there are Sherwood students who dress in a country style and are NOT wearing the confederate flag is accurate. The PP said in the 80s there were confederate flags. Another poster said there are Sherwood students who are "country* but are not wearing the confederate flag. Thank you for supporting both points with your experiences.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

Not at all, but there's no point in ignoring the reality. Who was wearing the confederate flag the PP referenced in the 80s? Students wearing Adidas track suits? The students wearing Benetton or Britches? Or the guys who dressed like country boys? Does that mean every person who wears this style is racist? No. But don't ignore reality. There are certain groups who will openly wear the confederate flag and we're not surprised when we see them dressed.

Having lived in the Sherwood area for almost 20 years, I have yet to see one confederate flag.

Lots of people commenting that have no idea.

Signed,
Parent of mixed raced children with culturally and religiously diverse neighbors.

So the point that there are Sherwood students who dress in a country style and are NOT wearing the confederate flag is accurate. The PP said in the 80s there were confederate flags. Another poster said there are Sherwood students who are "country* but are not wearing the confederate flag. Thank you for supporting both points with your experiences.

The 80s poster was probably right, but you could say that about the entire county. Confederate flags were seen even down in Bethesda so it’s not relevant to 2025.

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Anonymous wrote:I went there in the 80’s and it was very normal to see the confederate flag on belt buckles, t-shirts, car bumper sticker, and stickers on notebooks. I experienced this daily. It’s been 40 years so I hope a lot has changed. Because of my Sherwood experience, I only considered HBCUs.

I don't see any confederate flags, but there is a small subset of students who wear clothing you'd see at a country music concert. Boots, jeans, some cowboy hats, mullets. There are more students who don't. From what is posted on this forum about flights and lockdowns, Sherwood admin is doing well to keep anything from spiraling out of control.

I hope you’re not implying that country music and cowboy boots equals confederate and racism. And jeans? Come on now.

Not at all, but there's no point in ignoring the reality. Who was wearing the confederate flag the PP referenced in the 80s? Students wearing Adidas track suits? The students wearing Benetton or Britches? Or the guys who dressed like country boys? Does that mean every person who wears this style is racist? No. But don't ignore reality. There are certain groups who will openly wear the confederate flag and we're not surprised when we see them dressed.

Having lived in the Sherwood area for almost 20 years, I have yet to see one confederate flag.

Lots of people commenting that have no idea.

Signed,
Parent of mixed raced children with culturally and religiously diverse neighbors.

So the point that there are Sherwood students who dress in a country style and are NOT wearing the confederate flag is accurate. The PP said in the 80s there were confederate flags. Another poster said there are Sherwood students who are "country* but are not wearing the confederate flag. Thank you for supporting both points with your experiences.

The 80s poster was probably right, but you could say that about the entire county. Confederate flags were seen even down in Bethesda so it’s not relevant to 2025.

The MCPS BOE didn't even officially ban the confederate flag until 2020. It is relevant in 2025 when some automatically say a school is racist. Can there be racist students without a confederate flag? Absolutely. But if they're openly displaying the confederate flag, then there's a problem. Sherwood doesn't have students openly displaying confederate flags. Are there racists students there? Most likely. Does racism define the school culture? My opinion is that it does not.

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, the WaPo article about the alleged racist incident at a sporting event shouldn’t raise concerns because it turned out to be a false allegation. Of course the WaPo and media didn’t bother to clarify that.

People down county love to paint Sherwood as as a lily-white school because it isn’t as diverse as schools like Einstein, Wheaton, Kennedy, etc.

But Sherwood is still diverse.

And like all mcps high schools, the bathroom situation isn’t great.

Re: private - good luck. So many people are scrambling to jump ship snd get their kids into private, but there are limited seats.

I think Sherwood, Blake, and Einstein are fine. Ditto for Rockville.

I think Wheaton and Kennedy are problematic.

You can google the mcps “At a glance” stats on racial and socioeconomics, noting it’s a bit out of date. Fwiw, assume all schools are more diverse now/2025 (particularly more Latinos).

Blake has had a lot of incidents recently. It still has the good reputation because it’s more white than PB and Springbrook. But the reality is it’s had more violence/fights in the last year or so but they get swept under the rug

Careful, your racism is showing.