What are your thoughts on Blair NON-Magnet?

[Anonymous]

It's hands down the best high-school in the county.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not good. I may offend some folks but it's a ghetto school.

What exactly does that mean? Please explain. Also tell us what your connection to Blair is, a student, former student, your kids when there and when?

read 14:20 above

Um, 1994 was 25 years ago. How is that relevant to Blair today?

It isn't but Blair envy runs strong with a particular set.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's hands down the best high-school in the county.

And the best STEM program in the country

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not good. I may offend some folks but it's a ghetto school.

What exactly does that mean? Please explain. Also tell us what your connection to Blair is, a student, former student, your kids when there and when?

read 14:20 above

Um, 1994 was 25 years ago. How is that relevant to Blair today?

It isn't but Blair envy runs strong with a particular set.

What is other families in the mediocre DCC who have it worse?

I’ll take obvious answers for 200$ next Alex

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:4 classes out of the day is a lot.

OP -could your child apply to one of the other magnet programs at Einstein or Wheaton?

Lol @ other magnet... Wheaton and Einstein...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We went to the open house last night. I think Blair the best choice in the DCC.

That is like the date with the least amount of HIV

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's hands down the best high-school in the county.

And the best STEM program in the country

Said no one ever

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The other disturbing thing about Blair is that almost 100% of both magnet programs are white or asian. If 800 out of 3000 kids are in the magnet that is 27%. The white and asian kids combined are 37.6. If you subtract the 27% that are in the magnet that means that only 10% of the remaining white and asians are not in the magnet.

If you assume that all the magnet kids would meet UMD basic entrance requirements and subtract the 27% from 31.5% then only 4.5% of the non-magnet kids graduate meeting basic UMD entrance requirements.

Its a segregated school.

Those stats are eye opening

[Anonymous]

Disparity in scores and segregation are not the same thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The other disturbing thing about Blair is that almost 100% of both magnet programs are white or asian. If 800 out of 3000 kids are in the magnet that is 27%. The white and asian kids combined are 37.6. If you subtract the 27% that are in the magnet that means that only 10% of the remaining white and asians are not in the magnet.

If you assume that all the magnet kids would meet UMD basic entrance requirements and subtract the 27% from 31.5% then only 4.5% of the non-magnet kids graduate meeting basic UMD entrance requirements.

Its a segregated school.

Those stats are eye opening

They are off according the data released from the Metis report and Board memos/presentations. About 15% of the CAP and STEM magnet students are AA/Hispanic. At least 20% of white/Asian kids are NOT in the magnet program. Also, the total magnet students is closer to 750.

The 4.5% number is also too low as it doesnt consider that the senior class is smaller compared to the other grades and the 31% is only the senior class. However, the OP is right that the UMD entrance requirements data is alarming. Why are only 31% of seniors not meeting the following? Is it the math or language requirements?

"MSDE calculates the percentage of students meeting the University System of Maryland entrance requirements. Requirements for admission to the University System of Maryland are set by the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland and, at a minimum, include a cumulative grade point equivalent to a C or better, accumulated course credits in English (4 credits), social studies (3 credits), biological and physical sciences (3 credits), mathematics (4 credits), world languages or advanced technology (2 credits), and a high school diploma."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Those students will still be together in very large chunks due to scheduling since they all have the same block for the magnet classes and they are all advanced. There will be a few AA and hispanic students in the AP classes or on the accelerated math track BUT not many. For the white and asian kids, it "feels" diverse because look there is more than black kid in their class. For the majority of AA and hispanic kids they do not have white or asian kids in their math, English, science and other classes. Just electives that include no tracking and happen to work with their schedule to align with the magnet kids and PE. As previous posters have mentioned the magnet kids stick together at lunch and don't eat with everyone else.

Have to agree with the above poster. DS graduated last year and confirmed that the kids really do self-segregate. Unless they grew up in the DCC area, which most of the magnet kids do not, they have little if any social connections with the non-magnet kids.

I can't speak to the quality of the non-magnet Blair classes etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hands down the best high-school in the county.

And the best STEM program in the country

Said no one ever

Said the FACTS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneron_Science_Talent_Search

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hands down the best high-school in the county.

And the best STEM program in the country

Said no one ever

Said the FACTS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneron_Science_Talent_Search

ugh... here we go again. these guys and TJ parents are the worst braggers!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Those students will still be together in very large chunks due to scheduling since they all have the same block for the magnet classes and they are all advanced. There will be a few AA and hispanic students in the AP classes or on the accelerated math track BUT not many. For the white and asian kids, it "feels" diverse because look there is more than black kid in their class. For the majority of AA and hispanic kids they do not have white or asian kids in their math, English, science and other classes. Just electives that include no tracking and happen to work with their schedule to align with the magnet kids and PE. As previous posters have mentioned the magnet kids stick together at lunch and don't eat with everyone else.

Have to agree with the above poster. DS graduated last year and confirmed that the kids really do self-segregate. Unless they grew up in the DCC area, which most of the magnet kids do not, they have little if any social connections with the non-magnet kids.

I can't speak to the quality of the non-magnet Blair classes etc.

Students self segregate in every high school.

[Anonymous]

Look, I don't know what the deal with the UMd admissions requirements is, but I also really don't think it is as dire as PP says it is, based on how students at other MCPS high schools do on the same metric.

So, for BCC that number is 47%

For Blair it is 31%

For WJ it is 50%

For Whitman it is 58%.

Are folks prepared to argue that more than half of the kids who graduate from BCC are not college-ready?

Amost certainly not. Which means this metric is flawed. There is absolutely room for Blair (and every other MCPS HS) to do better by its most vulnerable kids, but we need to move off that particular metric because it clearly doesn't mean what folks want it to mean.