Best performing elementary schools in MoCo?

[Anonymous]

The quips about multiple personalities and aggression issues are just more ad hominem attacks. They make you look bad. If you can't argue fairly, you need to stop posting.

I'm pretty sure you're Crazy Tiger Mom, because references to mental illness are totally her style too. So I'll say "good bye" to you now

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If you spend your entire life searching for tigers why not go to the D.C. zoo and meld into your natural habitat.

[Anonymous]

Ok. I know a former MoCo cop who currently works in mcps high schools. He has worked in the wealthiest schools as well as schools in more moderate and low income areas. His two cents on "bad kids" at mcps high schools:

1. There are bad kids in all mcps high schools (his estimate is nearly 10% of the student population at all schools). These are the kids that get caught (so there are many more that are better at hiding their ba behavior). These are the kids that act out violently OR get caught stealing or with drugs.

2. All schools have kids who are well behave at school but experiment with drugs and/ or alcohol.

3. The big difference between the wealthier schools and low income schools: the parents. More affluent parents tend to defend their kids or try to shift the blame if they are called into school, whereas parents at low income schools tend to be furios with their kids and don't try to get them off the hook.

His advice (to me when I had a lengthy conversation with him about these sorts of issues and peppered him with questions about area high schools when we were house hunting) was to pray that your kid settles into a group of good friends bc the peer group plays a big role in behavior, risk taking, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok. I know a former MoCo cop who currently works in mcps high schools. He has worked in the wealthiest schools as well as schools in more moderate and low income areas. His two cents on "bad kids" at mcps high schools:

1. There are bad kids in all mcps high schools (his estimate is nearly 10% of the student population at all schools). These are the kids that get caught (so there are many more that are better at hiding their ba behavior). These are the kids that act out violently OR get caught stealing or with drugs.

2. All schools have kids who are well behave at school but experiment with drugs and/ or alcohol.

3. The big difference between the wealthier schools and low income schools: the parents. More affluent parents tend to defend their kids or try to shift the blame if they are called into school, whereas parents at low income schools tend to be furios with their kids and don't try to get them off the hook.

His advice (to me when I had a lengthy conversation with him about these sorts of issues and peppered him with questions about area high schools when we were house hunting) was to pray that your kid settles into a group of good friends bc the peer group plays a big role in behavior, risk taking, etc.

This seems like a very reasonable assessment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. I know a former MoCo cop who currently works in mcps high schools. He has worked in the wealthiest schools as well as schools in more moderate and low income areas. His two cents on "bad kids" at mcps high schools:


3. The big difference between the wealthier schools and low income schools: the parents. More affluent parents tend to defend their kids or try to shift the blame if they are called into school, whereas parents at low income schools tend to be furios with their kids and don't try to get them off the hook.

Very true. Witness the Churchill party last year that channel 9 filmed. Most of the parents took out their anger on the police officers and didn't say a thing to their kids. One idiot father questioned the officer on probable cause, warrantless search, and other points of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

As someone who grew up poor and received extensive test prep through a program I was in I can tell you that you are wrong. All the paid for college trios, summer job opportunities, etc cannot make up for the basic lack of preparation starting from before preschool and the lack of exposure. If I don't know basic things like what a mantel or a credenza or hummus because of basic lack of life exposure all the test prep in the world can reverse that basic lack of knowledge. If you are curious, I went to an exclusive prep school in NYC but grew up in housing projects near where Jay Z grew up. You are debating out of anger and based on a theory that you have tested in your head but while I admire your energy you are wrong.

You went to an exclusive prep school. What did you learn there? You sound like an exception and an outlier. I know many in your shoes who took advantage of an exclusive prep school from the ghetto and climbed the heights of the academic ladder. Your story does not impress.

I wasn't trying to impress you. I don't find my story very impressive. I was telling you that you are wrong.
P.S. You contradict yourself by saying that I sound like an exception and an outlier yet you know many in a similar situation. Like I said your argument is all good theory and emotion but you don't lead with reason.

[Anonymous]

I wasn't trying to impress you. I don't find my story very impressive. I was telling you that you are wrong.
P.S. You contradict yourself by saying that I sound like an exception and an outlier yet you know many in a similar situation. Like I said your argument is all good theory and emotion but you don't lead with reason.

I was one of them. You can't get more authentic than that. I fully well recognise not every one takes advantage of an exclusive prep school education before college but many had much much less opportunity than you. Do you hear the violin strings yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok. I know a former MoCo cop who currently works in mcps high schools. He has worked in the wealthiest schools as well as schools in more moderate and low income areas. His two cents on "bad kids" at mcps high schools:


3. The big difference between the wealthier schools and low income schools: the parents. More affluent parents tend to defend their kids or try to shift the blame if they are called into school, whereas parents at low income schools tend to be furios with their kids and don't try to get them off the hook.

Very true. Witness the Churchill party last year that channel 9 filmed. Most of the parents took out their anger on the police officers and didn't say a thing to their kids. One idiot father questioned the officer on probable cause, warrantless search, and other points of law.

The party filmed was with Walt Whitman students (35 of them) in Bethesda, not Churchill students. Same elitist attitudes. Same types of parents defending their kids instead of giving them the riot act. Only one parent made her child go up to the police officer and apologize for his behavior.

The PP that quoted about 10% of the school population at any MCPS high school is into illicit behavior type activities, I would agree this number is probably pretty accurate from what my children report. However, that means in a school of 2000 students, 200 of them are participating including bringing drugs and alcohol to school. It would be no surprise to MoCo police that the dealers at these schools are other students.

How my mom protected me and how I am protecting my kids is that I am home when they are home and I talk to them openly about the issue. If they see it, they need to walk away. Often that means not going to the bathroom all day because they know someone is probably in there doing drugs or smoking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I wasn't trying to impress you. I don't find my story very impressive. I was telling you that you are wrong.
P.S. You contradict yourself by saying that I sound like an exception and an outlier yet you know many in a similar situation. Like I said your argument is all good theory and emotion but you don't lead with reason.

I was one of them. You can't get more authentic than that. I fully well recognise not every one takes advantage of an exclusive prep school education before college but many had much much less opportunity than you. Do you hear the violin strings yet?

Well, perhaps you should have learned to spell "recognize."

[Anonymous]

The thing is, if your kid is taking mainly AP or IB classes, or is even in one of the three MCPS application programs, the percentage of dealers and users is likely to be much lower than in the rest of the school. I'm sure there is recreational drug and alcohol use even among this group if kids who is shooting for selective colleges, and I also don't doubt that the bathrooms in some MCPS high schools need to be navigated with care. But if your kid is on an AP/IB track, your student will spend most of his or her school day with the non-dealing student population.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The thing is, if your kid is taking mainly AP or IB classes, or is even in one of the three MCPS application programs, the percentage of dealers and users is likely to be much lower than in the rest of the school. I'm sure there is recreational drug and alcohol use even among this group if kids who is shooting for selective colleges, and I also don't doubt that the bathrooms in some MCPS high schools need to be navigated with care. But if your kid is on an AP/IB track, your student will spend most of his or her school day with the non-dealing student population.

+1

[Anonymous]

Well, perhaps you should have learned to spell "recognize."

You have proven your worldly experience and knowledge of the English language is confined to an American ghetto.

[Anonymous]

Well, perhaps you should have learned to spell "recognize."

It seems the exclusive and elite prep school education was a waste given this remark

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Well, perhaps you should have learned to spell "recognize."

You have proven your worldly experience and knowledge of the English language is confined to an American ghetto.

Yup, you got me PP. You got me. Now I'm going to hide in a corner and die of shame 8)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Well, perhaps you should have learned to spell "recognize."

You have proven your worldly experience and knowledge of the English language is confined to an American ghetto.

Yup, you got me PP. You got me. Now I'm going to hide in a corner and die of shame 8)

PP, Tiger Mom's anglicized spelling has prompted speculation on here that she's from Singapore or Taiwan. I'd stop while you're ahead because she'll never let this go.

[Anonymous]

PP, Tiger Mom's anglicized spelling has prompted speculation on here that she's from Singapore or Taiwan. I'd stop while you're ahead because she'll never let this go.

A career spent surfing dcum speculating and guessing about tigers and the like. The tiger was last seen in Peru.