Where do you consider MCPS high schools on a scale of good-bad

[Anonymous]

As with every post about MCPS school quality: it's all about SES, with the exception of the schools with magnet programs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like others said, the % white graph could summarize OP's intentions a lot more succinctly than that stupid long post

Except Damascus and poolesville skew redneck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I suspect the list also corresponds to the percentage of kids that got to college, avg SAT scores, #of AP's taken and scoring a 3 or better.

However you need to justify your prejudices.

+1 Here's a list that actually considers data when ranking.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-public-high-schools/s/maryland/

1. Poolesville High School (magnet)
2. Churchill
3. Whitman
4. Wootton
5. RM
6. WJ
7. BCC
8. Blair
9. QO

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like others said, the % white graph could summarize OP's intentions a lot more succinctly than that stupid long post

Except Damascus and poolesville skew redneck.

You haven't been there lately.

Also, "redneck" is a pejorative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ill take my Tier 5 school over your racist W school any day. ( Churchill)

Agreed I can only imagine how the black students at these “ W” schools feel. Probably the moment they walk through those doors it feels like Jim Crow. Also noticed that these W schools are full of arrogant students, while schools like Wheaton or Einstein has a more humble student body representing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I suspect the list also corresponds to the percentage of kids that got to college, avg SAT scores, #of AP's taken and scoring a 3 or better.

However you need to justify your prejudices.

+1 Here's a list that actually considers data when ranking.
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-public-high-schools/s/maryland/

1. Poolesville High School (magnet)
2. Churchill
3. Whitman
4. Wootton
5. RM
6. WJ
7. BCC
8. Blair
9. QO

10. Northwest
11. Damascus
12. Sherwood
13. Rockville
14. Paint Branch
15. Clarksburg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

+1

I don't know if it's a regional thing, but compassion and empathy seem to run very low here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ill take my Tier 5 school over your racist W school any day. ( Churchill)

Agreed I can only imagine how the black students at these “ W” schools feel. Probably the moment they walk through those doors it feels like Jim Crow. Also noticed that these W schools are full of arrogant students, while schools like Wheaton or Einstein has a more humble student body representing them.

My child was in the VAC magnet (Now goes to UCLA) I use to over hear the conversations they would have about students who commuted from schools like BCC and Whitman to the program and the elite attitudes they would have, just terrible parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

+1

I don't know if it's a regional thing, but compassion and empathy seem to run very low here.

+2 It can be downright toxic. I hope all you people know that what you write is linked to your IP address and that one day your grandchildren will probably be able to read what you wrote as part of your history and be ashamed of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

+1

I don't know if it's a regional thing, but compassion and empathy seem to run very low here.

+2 It can be downright toxic. I hope all you people know that what you write is linked to your IP address and that one day your grandchildren will probably be able to read what you wrote as part of your history and be ashamed of you.

That is an interesting theory. I always hope that mean, hateful people get their comeuppance, but you never know.

[Anonymous]

Tier 1

Poolesville HS.

Demographics, 3 magnet programs, strong non-magnet, lack of disciplinary issues, accelerated/magnet curriculum for most, not a pressure cooker, chilled parents, teachers and students.

Tier 2

Everything else

[Anonymous]

There is no shame in saying that good schools depend on well-informed parents with sufficient means to drive their kids’ academic success.

That is a documented FACT.

Stop saying we’re racist or elitist to say so. The confounding factor is that non-whites are statistically less likely to be wealthy or have higher education degrees (recent exception: Asians). Stop presuming that wanting the best schools means people wish to avoid brown people. It is not true. People want the best chance of success for their kids, and if this was at a a school full of green Martians, they would send them there!

The racist tropes are getting old and are impeding useful discussions based on facts. You can’t figure out a way to reduce the achievement gap if you start with a false racial premise instead of focusing on economics.

But it’s easier to whine about racism than it is to work on poverty and economic inequality! Blaming others instead of actually brainstorming is the lazy solution.

- a non-white person.

[Anonymous]

PPs can say what you want, no one is moving to a SV neighborhood so their kid can experience diversity, even though it’ll be (arguably) the nicest school in the county (bc it’s the newest).

People don’t like diversity or low income. But they like to pretend they do, then make an excuse about how they ended up in a good neighborhood “Well my parents bought this house in the 90’s and we wanted to save for a family soooo...”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

+1

I don't know if it's a regional thing, but compassion and empathy seem to run very low here.

+2 It can be downright toxic. I hope all you people know that what you write is linked to your IP address and that one day your grandchildren will probably be able to read what you wrote as part of your history and be ashamed of you.

Paranoid much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

There is no shame in saying that good schools depend on well-informed parents with sufficient means to drive their kids’ academic success.

That is a documented FACT.

Stop saying we’re racist or elitist to say so. The confounding factor is that non-whites are statistically less likely to be wealthy or have higher education degrees (recent exception: Asians). Stop presuming that wanting the best schools means people wish to avoid brown people. It is not true. People want the best chance of success for their kids, and if this was at a a school full of green Martians, they would send them there!

The racist tropes are getting old and are impeding useful discussions based on facts. You can’t figure out a way to reduce the achievement gap if you start with a false racial premise instead of focusing on economics.

But it’s easier to whine about racism than it is to work on poverty and economic inequality! Blaming others instead of actually brainstorming is the lazy solution.

- a non-white person.

But there are "well-informed parents with sufficient means to drive their kids’ academic success" at all MCPS high schools. This is not a useful thread/conversation, because the lists were not based on facts. And social economic prejudices affect non-white people as well.

So I will continue to call out stupid threads that continually try to put down my kids' school.