What is going on at Blair?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Frankly, we're white, and we wouldn't touch all-white Poolesville with a ten-foot pole.

Poolesville the town? Poolesville the high school? Certainly both are whiter than Montgomery County as a whole, but describing them as "all-white" is flat-out inaccurate.

And just as there's no need to run down Takoma Park and Silver Spring, there's also no need to run down Poolesville (either the town or the high school). You like where you live; that's great.

You're right, and I'm sorry about that. I was thinking more about the commute to my downtown DC job. Although I'm not very familiar with either Poolesville the town or Poolesville the school, I've heard good things about both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The name calling makes me feel that there may be some truth to the criticism about Blair. I don't know about white flight from Silver Sparing and Takoma Park but have seen the statistics on the web that seem to indicate that is true. I saw the piece Dan Reed wrote in the Washington Post as well. MCPS data also seems to show white flight from the system. The white flight is real, no?

Statistics? Sigh. Check out the recent Bethesda Magazine table on 2013 college applications and acceptances (from which you can infer acceptance rates) from top MoCo publics. Here: http://bethesdamagazine.com/College_Chart.pdf.

Blair does as well with acceptances to very top universities, and in many cases it does better, than the W schools. (My kid got into a USNWR top 5 from Blair, and DC knows the other Blair kids accepted to that university, so I can vouch for the acceptance figure shown for that particular university.)

Honestly, the part I've bolded is laughable. You just wave your hand and imply you have actual statistics. Well, put up or shut up. Meanwhile, for the saner readers, the college table and the PP who suggested looking at property values both provide some quantifiable evidence that Blair, the magnet, CAP--and even Silver Spring writ large--are doing very well, thank you.

This is my first post here today. I agree with the PP who said there's a sort of peverse fascination to this thread. It's sort of like watching a train wreck and wondering what's going on (or not going on) in the Poolesville booster's mind. There are lots of great schools in MoCo, really! And just because your school is great doesn't mean you have to cut down every other MoCo school. I do think there's a weird racial aspect to the whole White Flight to Poolesville rant. Frankly, we're white, and we wouldn't touch all-white Poolesville with a ten-foot pole.


What you didn't point out is that those acceptances are for kids who went through the system before Johnson.

No one said there was white flight to Poolesville. You made up a story to then beat it down.

You also make up a story that Poolesville is all white. Where did that come from?

Frankly, Poolesville should be happy you wont touch it with a ten foot pole.

You Blair trolls should get that chip off your shoulder about Poolesville. Whenever you get criticized you attack Poolesville. They MUST BE GOOD.

[Anonymous]

Blair principal gets congratulations from PTA for winning an award given by ?? based on criteria stated ???!

https://twitter.com/blairprincipal/status/430422591489048576

[Anonymous]

Cutie!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What you didn't point out is that those acceptances are for kids who went through the system before Johnson.

No one said there was white flight to Poolesville. You made up a story to then beat it down.

You also make up a story that Poolesville is all white. Where did that come from?

Frankly, Poolesville should be happy you wont touch it with a ten foot pole.

You Blair trolls should get that chip off your shoulder about Poolesville. Whenever you get criticized you attack Poolesville. They MUST BE GOOD.

In fact, 20:09 said exactly that - that there's white flight from the Blair area. And I haven't seen anybody from Blair that is bashing Poolesville - they were bashing YOU. For obvious reasons, among them being your many lies.

But I'm done with you. Happy trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What you didn't point out is that those acceptances are for kids who went through the system before Johnson.

No one said there was white flight to Poolesville. You made up a story to then beat it down.

You also make up a story that Poolesville is all white. Where did that come from?

Frankly, Poolesville should be happy you wont touch it with a ten foot pole.

You Blair trolls should get that chip off your shoulder about Poolesville. Whenever you get criticized you attack Poolesville. They MUST BE GOOD.

In fact, 20:09 said exactly that - that there's white flight from the Blair area. And I haven't seen anybody from Blair that is bashing Poolesville - they were bashing YOU. For obvious reasons, among them being your many lies.

But I'm done with you. Happy trolling.

And just for the record, Renay Johnson has been principal of Blair since fall 2011, but as usual why let a fact interfere with delusion.

I don't have the energy or interest to keep correcting these comments though. You start to feel like those poor guys at Media Matters who spend all day debunking the lies, distortions and fever dreams of Fox News. It's a thankless job because it never ends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What you didn't point out is that those acceptances are for kids who went through the system before Johnson.

No one said there was white flight to Poolesville. You made up a story to then beat it down.

You also make up a story that Poolesville is all white. Where did that come from?

Frankly, Poolesville should be happy you wont touch it with a ten foot pole.

You Blair trolls should get that chip off your shoulder about Poolesville. Whenever you get criticized you attack Poolesville. They MUST BE GOOD.

In fact, 20:09 said exactly that - that there's white flight from the Blair area. And I haven't seen anybody from Blair that is bashing Poolesville - they were bashing YOU. For obvious reasons, among them being your many lies.

But I'm done with you. Happy trolling.

And just for the record, Renay Johnson has been principal of Blair since fall 2011, but as usual why let a fact interfere with delusion.

I don't have the energy or interest to keep correcting these comments though. You start to feel like those poor guys at Media Matters who spend all day debunking the lies, distortions and fever dreams of Fox News. It's a thankless job because it never ends.

+1. That's what trolling is all about. She wears us down with the twisted logic and lies, and then in her sad little mind she thinks she's won a great "victory." It's a weird mentality, and she leads a sad life to be sure.

[Anonymous]

Okay, I know I'll be stirring a hornet's nest but have to ask.

The way Bmakes me wonder lair folks attack everyone on any thread who suggests another school as an alternative wonder if there are enrollment problems at Blair.

Johnson came in 2011. So, the students who may be impacted by her decisions are probably still in school,

And the tweeting. What is that all about? I see a lot of pictures of herself, pictures of her going to Broadway, ... selfies. Oy, people, what up?

Attacking Poolesville, RM, what next the spider webs on the porch?

[Anonymous]

The slavish congratulations for the principal also makes it seems like that there is an organized effort to generate student interest in Blair. It is a DCC school where one can choose between Blair and others. The reason for the choices is, among other things, the quality of schools.

So, don't hack other schools to pump up Blair. Let us promote the good things.

Largest high school in Montgomery County
Majority Hispanic student body
Has magnet program and CAP program
Has a relatively new principal--came in 2011
Located at Four Corners with easy access to food & shopping
PTSA advocating for additional registra and Spanish speaking staff
Principal won an award given by a teacher network that tries to help teacher recruitment at difficult schools

[Anonymous]

Posted on the other thread as well.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04201.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04757-blair-gallup-2012.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04201-rmhs-gallup-2012.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Posted on the other thread as well.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04201.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04757-blair-gallup-2012.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04201-rmhs-gallup-2012.pdf

What point are you trying to make?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I know I'll be stirring a hornet's nest but have to ask.

The way Bmakes me wonder lair folks attack everyone on any thread who suggests another school as an alternative wonder if there are enrollment problems at Blair.

Johnson came in 2011. So, the students who may be impacted by her decisions are probably still in school,

And the tweeting. What is that all about? I see a lot of pictures of herself, pictures of her going to Broadway, ... selfies. Oy, people, what up?

Attacking Poolesville, RM, what next the spider webs on the porch?

Of course you want to stir the hornet's nest! That's your whole MO. You're the Poolesville booster, which is obvious from the distortions you keep repeating over and over. (For example, it has already been pointed out to you that, contrary to what you say above, nobody has attacked Poolesville HS itself, instead they are attacking you and you happen to be a Poolesville booster. Big difference.) Why are you even following Blair's principal on Twitter if you don't send your kid there? It's not because you want to scroll through hundreds of tweets about how the Blair athletic teams are doing. Do you follow all the high schools in MoCo? In fact, I suspect you're not actually following her because what you've written above seems fabricated.

For the record, and for anybody who might actually take this nonsense seriously: Johnson's Twitter feed has a ton of stuff on Blair sports events. A ton of sports. Also, lots of tweets about Silver Chips (the school newspaper), a MoCo mental health event, Washington Post articles on teenagers' health, Blair kids' arts events, her lunch with the Blair band, Blair kids who have won academic awards, Blair teachers who have won awards, BOE issues, and Blair staffing needs. I scrolled through hundreds, literally hundreds of her tweets before I got to a tweet of a poster for smething called Motown Musical that she appraently attended on December 28--not a selfie with her face in it, and certainly not "pictures" in the plural as you wrote above, and need I point out that December 28 was a holiday. Then back to hundreds more tweets about Blair. Honestly, personal stuff seems to be less than 1% (as a ratio to posts about Blair) of her tweets and I have no problem with it, in fact what's wrong with knowing the principal has an outside life occasionally.

This can all be seen here: https://twitter.com/blairprincipal. I'm not sure if you need a Twitter account to read it. But if you're at all concerned about the nonsense the idiot Blair hater is spewing, and if there's a chance it may affect your family's school choices, I would recommend signing up for Twitter which is easy and free. Your mind will instantly be set at ease.

So weird.

Signed,
a Blair parent

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Posted on the other thread as well.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04201.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/SafetyGlance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04757-blair-gallup-2012.pdf
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/info/gallup/pdf/04201-rmhs-gallup-2012.pdf

What point are you trying to make?

If you can't figure it out then this kitchen aint for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, I know I'll be stirring a hornet's nest but have to ask.

The way Bmakes me wonder lair folks attack everyone on any thread who suggests another school as an alternative wonder if there are enrollment problems at Blair.

Johnson came in 2011. So, the students who may be impacted by her decisions are probably still in school,

And the tweeting. What is that all about? I see a lot of pictures of herself, pictures of her going to Broadway, ... selfies. Oy, people, what up?

Attacking Poolesville, RM, what next the spider webs on the porch?

Of course you want to stir the hornet's nest! That's your whole MO. You're the Poolesville booster, which is obvious from the distortions you keep repeating over and over. (For example, it has already been pointed out to you that, contrary to what you say above, nobody has attacked Poolesville HS itself, instead they are attacking you and you happen to be a Poolesville booster. Big difference.) Why are you even following Blair's principal on Twitter if you don't send your kid there? It's not because you want to scroll through hundreds of tweets about how the Blair athletic teams are doing. Do you follow all the high schools in MoCo? In fact, I suspect you're not actually following her because what you've written above seems fabricated.

For the record, and for anybody who might actually take this nonsense seriously: Johnson's Twitter feed has a ton of stuff on Blair sports events. A ton of sports. Also, lots of tweets about Silver Chips (the school newspaper), a MoCo mental health event, Washington Post articles on teenagers' health, Blair kids' arts events, her lunch with the Blair band, Blair kids who have won academic awards, Blair teachers who have won awards, BOE issues, and Blair staffing needs. I scrolled through hundreds, literally hundreds of her tweets before I got to a tweet of a poster for smething called Motown Musical that she appraently attended on December 28--not a selfie with her face in it, and certainly not "pictures" in the plural as you wrote above, and need I point out that December 28 was a holiday. Then back to hundreds more tweets about Blair. Honestly, personal stuff seems to be less than 1% (as a ratio to posts about Blair) of her tweets and I have no problem with it, in fact what's wrong with knowing the principal has an outside life occasionally.

This can all be seen here: https://twitter.com/blairprincipal. I'm not sure if you need a Twitter account to read it. But if you're at all concerned about the nonsense the idiot Blair hater is spewing, and if there's a chance it may affect your family's school choices, I would recommend signing up for Twitter which is easy and free. Your mind will instantly be set at ease.

So weird.

Signed,
a Blair parent

It sure seems that you Blair people do have it in for Poolesville. Otherwise, why would you thinkl criticism of Blair boosts Poolesville?

If you are really a Blair parent you would realize that criticizing Blair would only boost any of the other DCC choices.

Just going on and on claiming distortions and accusing people of boosting Poolesville or some other school just doesn't make Blair look good. Drop it sistah.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Of course you want to stir the hornet's nest! That's your whole MO. You're the Poolesville booster, which is obvious from the distortions you keep repeating over and over. (For example, it has already been pointed out to you that, contrary to what you say above, nobody has attacked Poolesville HS itself, instead they are attacking you and you happen to be a Poolesville booster. Big difference.) Why are you even following Blair's principal on Twitter if you don't send your kid there? It's not because you want to scroll through hundreds of tweets about how the Blair athletic teams are doing. Do you follow all the high schools in MoCo? In fact, I suspect you're not actually following her because what you've written above seems fabricated.

For the record, and for anybody who might actually take this nonsense seriously: Johnson's Twitter feed has a ton of stuff on Blair sports events. A ton of sports. Also, lots of tweets about Silver Chips (the school newspaper), a MoCo mental health event, Washington Post articles on teenagers' health, Blair kids' arts events, her lunch with the Blair band, Blair kids who have won academic awards, Blair teachers who have won awards, BOE issues, and Blair staffing needs. I scrolled through hundreds, literally hundreds of her tweets before I got to a tweet of a poster for smething called Motown Musical that she appraently attended on December 28--not a selfie with her face in it, and certainly not "pictures" in the plural as you wrote above, and need I point out that December 28 was a holiday. Then back to hundreds more tweets about Blair. Honestly, personal stuff seems to be less than 1% (as a ratio to posts about Blair) of her tweets and I have no problem with it, in fact what's wrong with knowing the principal has an outside life occasionally.

This can all be seen here: https://twitter.com/blairprincipal. I'm not sure if you need a Twitter account to read it. But if you're at all concerned about the nonsense the idiot Blair hater is spewing, and if there's a chance it may affect your family's school choices, I would recommend signing up for Twitter which is easy and free. Your mind will instantly be set at ease.

So weird.

Signed,
a Blair parent

It sure seems that you Blair people do have it in for Poolesville. Otherwise, why would you thinkl criticism of Blair boosts Poolesville?

If you are really a Blair parent you would realize that criticizing Blair would only boost any of the other DCC choices.

Just going on and on claiming distortions and accusing people of boosting Poolesville or some other school just doesn't make Blair look good. Drop it sistah.

So much bad logic, so little time! Almost everything you've said makes no sense whatsoever and/or is a complete distortion of what someone else said.

The good thing is, by now almost everyone here understands you're a troll. My contribution was to point out that you're lying about Johnson's Twitter. You're clearly unable to substantiate your own nonsense about Johnson's tweets.

I'm not writing for you. I'm writing for anybody who might be tempted to believe you and now knows better. Mission accomplished.