What are W schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Look at the deciles of the whole school. The top two if not three quartiles are quite strong and consistent at W schools.

Yeah, you know why? Because they have more white/asian kids from higher income families. Doesn't mean they're better schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Dear OP, Einstein is a great school! And has a few things that a W school don't have

1.Strong Dance and Theatre program
2. VAC
3. Talented student body
4. DIVERSITY

You and your daughter made a great choice.

I rest my case.
If the parents at under performing schools can't write legibly, then how can we expect their kids to?

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Dear OP, Einstein is a great school! And has a few things that a W school don't have

1.Strong Dance and Theatre program
2. VAC
3. Talented student body
4. DIVERSITY

You and your daughter made a great choice.

I rest my case.
If the parents at under performing schools can't write legibly, then how can we expect their kids to?

I’m a parent in a W community and think you’re a lot worse than someone with poor grammar. I’d rather my kid learn kindness than memorize Strunk and White.

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

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Better parents

Less gangs.

But more drugs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are public schools in Montgomery County.

Walt Whitman
Winston Churchill
Thomas Wootten
Walter Johnson

Notice they all have a W in their name. They are on the West side of the county and tend to have less economic (and therefore racial) diversity than the other schools in the county.

Also the new W’s, Woodward and Wheaton

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The Ws are a group of schools that have thus far managed to gerrymander their boundaries to remain largely segregated. The parents love to boast about this. Hate crime is also common at these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

Lol, only in DCUM is Northwest a bad school. I don't know who started this ridiculous rumor on here but here are the facts: GS rated 7 (higher than RM or Blair), 95% graduation rate, 91% for FARM kids (one of the highest grad rates in the county, if not the highest for both farm and non- farm). Stats are pretty much the same as QO with the exception that QO has more white kids (45% vs 29%) and slighly lower FARM rates at 23% vs 28%. This is honestly a blatant example of how here we consider white = better.

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Anonymous wrote:Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason.

Why are they higher? Better teachers?

Tutors

Better parents

Not sure about “better” parents but definitely more education focused parents and kids.

Oh yeah, up here in QO-land, we don't care about our kids' educations. You're totally right about that. Our collective goal is for our kids to barely graduate high school.

LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

Lol, only in DCUM is Northwest a bad school. I don't know who started this ridiculous rumor on here but here are the facts: GS rated 7 (higher than RM or Blair), 95% graduation rate, 91% for FARM kids (one of the highest grad rates in the county, if not the highest for both farm and non- farm). Stats are pretty much the same as QO with the exception that QO has more white kids (45% vs 29%) and slighly lower FARM rates at 23% vs 28%. This is honestly a blatant example of how here we consider white = better.

Exactly. NW is a great school.

Also, to the PP who said non-W schools are full of drugs: apparently you haven’t spent much time around Churchill kids. The only difference between them and their non-W counterparts is they’ll go for the expensive party drugs while the other kids have to settle for pot.

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LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

Lol, only in DCUM is Northwest a bad school. I don't know who started this ridiculous rumor on here but here are the facts: GS rated 7 (higher than RM or Blair), 95% graduation rate, 91% for FARM kids (one of the highest grad rates in the county, if not the highest for both farm and non- farm). Stats are pretty much the same as QO with the exception that QO has more white kids (45% vs 29%) and slighly lower FARM rates at 23% vs 28%. This is honestly a blatant example of how here we consider white = better.

Northwest (bad! gangs!) vs. Quince Orchard (good! school spirit!) is really the proof that on DCUM, the higher the white population, the "better" the school. Really the ONLY meaningful difference between Northwest and Quince Orchard is that Quince Orchard has a higher percentage of white kids.

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Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

Not B-CC, because there is no W in Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Of course there is a W in Wheaton and Watkins Mill, but oddly enough, that doesn't make them W schools. Evidently having a W somewhere in the name is necessary but not sufficient.

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LOL I'm a W parent and no one here looks down on QO, just too far out for DH and I to want to live there. If you don't mind the longer commute to DC then its fine. QO is like a border-line W, the people on here referring badly to non-Ws are talking about Gaithersburg, Watkins Mill, Seneca Valley, Northwest, Wheaton, etc. not QO or Poolesville.

Lol, only in DCUM is Northwest a bad school. I don't know who started this ridiculous rumor on here but here are the facts: GS rated 7 (higher than RM or Blair), 95% graduation rate, 91% for FARM kids (one of the highest grad rates in the county, if not the highest for both farm and non- farm). Stats are pretty much the same as QO with the exception that QO has more white kids (45% vs 29%) and slighly lower FARM rates at 23% vs 28%. This is honestly a blatant example of how here we consider white = better.

Northwest (bad! gangs!) vs. Quince Orchard (good! school spirit!) is really the proof that on DCUM, the higher the white population, the "better" the school. Really the ONLY meaningful difference between Northwest and Quince Orchard is that Quince Orchard has a higher percentage of white kids.

Yep, and in the magnet debates, Blair is better than Poolesville (despite Poolesville regularly being ranked #1 in MD) because Blair is downcounty and Poolesville is upcounty and so draws from hicks and thugs.

DCUM downcounty elitism at its best!

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Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

Not B-CC, because there is no W in Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Of course there is a W in Wheaton and Watkins Mill, but oddly enough, that doesn't make them W schools. Evidently having a W somewhere in the name is necessary but not sufficient.

B-CC is adjacent to Silver Spring. No way we'd let them in the W's!

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Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

Not B-CC, because there is no W in Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Of course there is a W in Wheaton and Watkins Mill, but oddly enough, that doesn't make them W schools. Evidently having a W somewhere in the name is necessary but not sufficient.

B-CC is adjacent to Silver Spring. No way we'd let them in the W's!

Yeah, everyone knows that's Thuglandia. Gaithersburg/Germantown is Ganglandia and Poolesville is Hicksville. Everywhere else is "The Good Parts of MoCo."

These are trademark DCUM labels.

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Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

Not B-CC, because there is no W in Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Of course there is a W in Wheaton and Watkins Mill, but oddly enough, that doesn't make them W schools. Evidently having a W somewhere in the name is necessary but not sufficient.

B-CC is adjacent to Silver Spring. No way we'd let them in the W's!

Yeah, everyone knows that's Thuglandia. Gaithersburg/Germantown is Ganglandia and Poolesville is Hicksville. Everywhere else is "The Good Parts of MoCo."

These are trademark DCUM labels.

Ahem. Poolesville is in the "Siberian Hinterlands" (formerly known as "Bumf*ckistan").

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Wooten is a W school now? From my impression, they are Whitman, Churchill, WJ, and B-CC

Not B-CC, because there is no W in Bethesda-Chevy Chase. Of course there is a W in Wheaton and Watkins Mill, but oddly enough, that doesn't make them W schools. Evidently having a W somewhere in the name is necessary but not sufficient.

B-CC is adjacent to Silver Spring. No way we'd let them in the W's!

Yeah, everyone knows that's Thuglandia. Gaithersburg/Germantown is Ganglandia and Poolesville is Hicksville. Everywhere else is "The Good Parts of MoCo."

These are trademark DCUM labels.

And this is why MCPS wants to make demographics as a primary factor in school assignments. When you have a bunch of misguided parents who think that schools like high performing Northwest, are bad because of ignorant assumptions about brown kids, then they have to resort to that. Parents, grow up!