RM vs Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:In 2012-2013... from MoCo at a Glance Safety report Wootton had 21 incidents that involved calling Police, RM had 11.

I know a current Wootton student who has commented that there's been a decent amount of fighting recently. A lot of drug offerings as well.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No delusion. RM Neighborhood kids can apply at the end of 10th grade. They are not competing against the whole county. Kids that have been successful in 9th and 10th grade have a decent chance of getting a spot... Several kids in my neighborhood have taken advantage of this. It is a big plus to living in the cluster. Of course it is a challenging program with many requirements so it is not something that is right for some kids.

+1 This is one of the reasons we chose RM cluster neighborhood over Wootton. Maybe my kids won't get into the IB program, but at least they will have had the exposure to it in JW, and a better chance to get in in HS. I don't necessarily like the rigorous part of the curriculum, but I do like the fact that it has an international flavor to it. Plus, we like the diversity at RM over Wootton, both in racial and SES - hugely important to us.

To both posters... can you describe/rate your experience at JW? Did you find the IB middle years program worthwhile?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

PP - do you really think the MSs that feed into Wootton don't have any teen pregnancies? Money can hush up a lot of things like drug habits, illegal activities and teen pregnancies.

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

PP - do you really think the MSs that feed into Wootton don't have any teen pregnancies? Money can hush up a lot of things like drug habits, illegal activities and teen pregnancies.

NP here but, yes, I doubt any of the 11, 12 or 13 year old girls at Robert Frost got pregnant last year.

[Anonymous]

I have kids at JW and I had no clue about any pregnancies (if that info is correct..you certainly can't believe alot of what is on here) so unless the at a glance page lists the statistics I don't know how anyone can really compare pregnancy rates at area schools. I do know that I grew up in a very well to do New England town and there were pregnancies there back when it was even less accepted. I don't believe that any cluster in the county is immune.

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

PP - do you really think the MSs that feed into Wootton don't have any teen pregnancies? Money can hush up a lot of things like drug habits, illegal activities and teen pregnancies.

NP here but, yes, I doubt any of the 11, 12 or 13 year old girls at Robert Frost got pregnant last year.

You may doubt, but you have no idea, really, because it's not like the parents at those schools would allow it to become public knowledge. Didn't someone state that in some of these well-to-do schools, MS girls were giving BJs? So you would be ok with this but not if the girl actually got pregnant. Let me guess.. your definition of sex is the same as Bill Clinton's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

PP - do you really think the MSs that feed into Wootton don't have any teen pregnancies? Money can hush up a lot of things like drug habits, illegal activities and teen pregnancies.

NP here but, yes, I doubt any of the 11, 12 or 13 year old girls at Robert Frost got pregnant last year.

You may doubt, but you have no idea, really, because it's not like the parents at those schools would allow it to become public knowledge. Didn't someone state that in some of these well-to-do schools, MS girls were giving BJs? So you would be ok with this but not if the girl actually got pregnant. Let me guess.. your definition of sex is the same as Bill Clinton's.

Well, neither of us know any way... I'm speaking of probable outcomes. At that age the pregnancy rate is much lower than in the 15-19 range.

[Anonymous]

And to your other question, no I would not be "ok," but if my DD were engaging in those activities, I'd be much less "ok" if she were dumb enough to get pregnant (or exposing herself to STDs).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

PP - do you really think the MSs that feed into Wootton don't have any teen pregnancies? Money can hush up a lot of things like drug habits, illegal activities and teen pregnancies.

NP here but, yes, I doubt any of the 11, 12 or 13 year old girls at Robert Frost got pregnant last year.

You may doubt, but you have no idea, really, because it's not like the parents at those schools would allow it to become public knowledge. Didn't someone state that in some of these well-to-do schools, MS girls were giving BJs? So you would be ok with this but not if the girl actually got pregnant. Let me guess.. your definition of sex is the same as Bill Clinton's.

Well, neither of us know any way... I'm speaking of probable outcomes. At that age the pregnancy rate is much lower than in the 15-19 range.

As I stated, families that are higher SES will hush it up quickly. So, it may be that Frost MS has a lot more teen pregnancies, but all of them were "taken care of". You really don't know. Yes, lower income SES girls tend to have higher teen pregnancies, but that is mostly due to 1. lack of access to birth control/abortion 2. cultural aversion to abortion. Upper SES families don't have the same level of aversion to abortion. From what I have read on this forum, a lot of young girls from good schools are having sex, too, and from what I have read, a lot of these parents are giving their girls access to birth control, something that lower SES parents wouldn't or couldn't do. That, to me, is the only difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As I stated, families that are higher SES will hush it up quickly. So, it may be that Frost MS has a lot more teen pregnancies, but all of them were "taken care of". You really don't know. Yes, lower income SES girls tend to have higher teen pregnancies, but that is mostly due to 1. lack of access to birth control/abortion 2. cultural aversion to abortion. Upper SES families don't have the same level of aversion to abortion. From what I have read on this forum, a lot of young girls from good schools are having sex, too, and from what I have read, a lot of these parents are giving their girls access to birth control, something that lower SES parents wouldn't or couldn't do. That, to me, is the only difference.

Whether or not the abortion rate is the same, the data is consistent that higher SES will get pregnant less because they are less likely to engage in sexual activity and, if they do, more likely to practice safe sex.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

I don't know what a "full blown pregnancy" is, and I've been pregnant four times.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"An 8yr age gap in a 4yr school speaks volumes on the students."

Speaks volumes on the whole school population? Really? The only students that stay passed 18 are those that are still learning English (or have special needs). I don't think anyone wants a school to be judged by 1 incident involving 2 students. My guess is that Wootton has some English learners that are past 18 as well..

No they actually don't have 19, 20 or 21yr olds. And sure there are some pregnancies, drugs, and mess ups in every school. No one said they were perfect but there is more motivation there. And Julius West (the middle school feeder into RM) had 2 full blown pregnancies this year. It is something people should be aware.

I don't know what a "full blown pregnancy" is, and I've been pregnant four times.

It's like being really pregnant as opposed to just kind of pregnant. Or, meaning that the pregnancies went full term, whereas in the higher SES schools, the pregnancies are just kind of pregnant because they get an abortion.

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Anonymous wrote:As I stated, families that are higher SES will hush it up quickly. So, it may be that Frost MS has a lot more teen pregnancies, but all of them were "taken care of". You really don't know. Yes, lower income SES girls tend to have higher teen pregnancies, but that is mostly due to 1. lack of access to birth control/abortion 2. cultural aversion to abortion. Upper SES families don't have the same level of aversion to abortion. From what I have read on this forum, a lot of young girls from good schools are having sex, too, and from what I have read, a lot of these parents are giving their girls access to birth control, something that lower SES parents wouldn't or couldn't do. That, to me, is the only difference.

Whether or not the abortion rate is the same, the data is consistent that higher SES will get pregnant less because they are less likely to engage in sexual activity and, if they do, more likely to practice safe sex.

yes, and data is consistent that higher SES kids have more access to designer drugs and have their parents bail them out of trouble rather than actually be disciplined or suffer the consequences of their actions. So what is your point? That teen pregnancies are worse than being an affluenza kid? IDK - at least with teen pregnancies, some of the teens turn out to be good parents, while an affluenza kids end up killing six innocent people. Are all high SES kids like the affluenza kid? No. Just like not all kids from lower SES have sex in MS or even HS. I wouldn't want my kids exposed to either types of kids, but in reality, I can't put them in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love some help understanding the pros and cons of each school. Wootton seems to be the preferred school. What is that based on?

Way to stir the pot, OP. There are literally dozens of posts about the schools already and there are always strong opinions. Those in the RM cluster will likely tout their school just as those in the Wootton cluster will likely tout theirs. If you really care, find people you know to speak to about the schools and not some anonymous posters.