Three W's?

[Anonymous]

I think WJ is sometimes also considered not quite the same too. Even the elite have a hierarchy.

[Anonymous]

So it's:
1. Churchill-Whitman
2. Wootton-WJ
3. The magnets and IBs

[Anonymous]

I think Wooten is better than Walter Johnson.

[Anonymous]

The magnets (Blair, RM, and maybe Poolsville) are better than any of the Ws in terms of course offerings and quality of the students. They are magnets with county wide competitive entrance tests.

[Anonymous]

Poolsville. 3/4 of the school is magnet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The magnets (Blair, RM, and maybe Poolsville) are better than any of the Ws in terms of course offerings and quality of the students. They are magnets with county wide competitive entrance tests.

True, would be lovely for my child!

[Anonymous]

LOL

How good the school is does not matter - because they are all MCPS schools.

Question to ask is - How good a student is your kid? Can he work hard? Is he bright/gifted/driven?

Then ask - Are you great, supportive parents? Is your marriage strong or will his education get derailed because of divorce/custody issues in the family? Can you give him a solid family life? Is there a chance that your kid will get into bad influences and experiment with drugs and alcohol? Do you value education?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it's:
1. Churchill-Whitman
2. Wootton-WJ
3. The magnets and IBs

This is starting to remind me of Ted Cruz's criteria for his law school study group.

[Anonymous]

OP, the 4 Ws are Whitman, Wootton, Winston Churchill, and Walter Johnson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, the 4 Ws are Whitman, Wootton, Winston Churchill, and Walter Johnson.

Yes, they are. Or are they...?

[Anonymous]

I will be your MoCo high school historian. I graduated from a W school in the late 1980s. At that time there were just three W schools -- Whitman, Wootton and (Winston) Churchill. There were no magnet programs at any schools and Woodward and Walter Johnson had just been consolidated (hence WJ wildcats instead of spartans). WJ was considered second tier, even below BCC. Very shortly after I graduated, a part of the Wootton pyramid was redistricted to RM. In order to appease very angry parents, they created the IB program. About that time, the county also implemented the STEM magnet program at Blair (which used to be the best school in the county when my parents went there in the early 1960s). Later, throughout the 1990s, as Bethesda became a more desirable place to live for well-off people, WJ's stock rose. It's a great school and one I would definitely select for my own children. However, I did not know that it had entered the W pantheon until I started reading DCUM a couple of years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So it's:
1. Churchill-Whitman
2. Wootton-WJ
3. The magnets and IBs

I'd put BCC on that list somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So other than the 4 ws and the blair and RM magnets, are there any other acceptable schools? What about Northwest, and Quince Orchard?

Not even close. Those schools have too much "diversity". Code word for too many blacks and Hispanics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So other than the 4 ws and the blair and RM magnets, are there any other acceptable schools? What about Northwest, and Quince Orchard?

Not even close. Those schools have too much "diversity". Code word for too many blacks and Hispanics.

Interesting. It seems that at least QO draws from some pretty pricy areas. I guess some not so pricy areas too.

[Anonymous]

Similar to RM, I think without the magnet?