Why w school students not preferred in Blair magnet

[Anonymous]

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The W's are Winston (Churchill), Walter (Johnson), Walt Whitman, and (Thomas) Wootton.

I haven't heard of Winston HS or Walter HS. Where are they?

While no one calls Wootton by its full name, Walter Johnson is always called by its full name, and Whitman and Churchill are called by their full names at least 1/3 of the time.

Contrary to popular belief the Ws are not a creation of DCUM. My DC played sports and every preseason we had something called the "Ws Playday", which was a series of scrimmages among the 4 schools. These 4 plus BCC tend to have more rivalries with each other in sports, primarily due to proximity and strength in comparable sports. I have heard the Ws used by others at school, definitely by people who have not heard it from DCUM.

Then I must only be hearing the other 2/3.

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[Anonymous]

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The W's are Winston (Churchill), Walter (Johnson), Walt Whitman, and (Thomas) Wootton.

I haven't heard of Winston HS or Walter HS. Where are they?

While no one calls Wootton by its full name, Walter Johnson is always called by its full name, and Whitman and Churchill are called by their full names at least 1/3 of the time.

Contrary to popular belief the Ws are not a creation of DCUM. My DC played sports and every preseason we had something called the "Ws Playday", which was a series of scrimmages among the 4 schools. These 4 plus BCC tend to have more rivalries with each other in sports, primarily due to proximity and strength in comparable sports. I have heard the Ws used by others at school, definitely by people who have not heard it from DCUM.

Then I must only be hearing the other 2/3.

You mean like "..itman" and "..rchill"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps because there are plenty of smart and capable students at non-W schools. I know, OP, it's a tough thing for a one-percenter in MoCo to wrap her mind around.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Perhaps because there are plenty of smart and capable students at non-W schools. I know, OP, it's a tough thing for a one-percenter in MoCo to wrap her mind around.

No W parents will accept that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to MCPS, the W high schools are Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman (Walt), and Wootton (Thomas S.).

Churchill (Winston) is a C high school, along with Clarksburg.

Blair (Montgomery) is actually a B high school, not an M school. The other B schools are Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Blake (James Hubert). The M high schools are Magruder (Col. Zadok) and Montgomery (Richard).

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/globalContent/documents/List-Of-Schools.pdf

You are like my dog when she gets a bone or a stick. She holds on to it for dear life and growls if you try to take it away from her.

The W reference is a commonly understood shorthand to describe a set of 4 schools. It is not a formal designation. Think of it like the Big Ten, which has 14 schools in it, or the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) which now includes Notre Dame despite the fact that Indiana is nowhere near the Atlantic Coast.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your theory doesn't hold up, OP.

Take a look at the data. Wooton and Walter Johnson are among the top high schools for # of kids sent to magnet programs.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/Appendix-B-Program-data-tables.pdf

Churchill also, although not technically a "W" school.

The only one that doesn't send a lot of kids to the magnets is Whitman and from what I've heard from talking to parents it's because Whitman is so good that why bother applying elsewhere. The commute is also terrible to Blair from that part of Bethesda.

There was a book about top Whitman students a few years ago and one kid went to Blair for a year and then his parents pulled him out because they thought Whitman would be better. He ended up going to Harvard so it sounds like it worked out for them.

Thank you for providing hard facts to respond to OP's question.
It looks like there are 44 kids from Wooton, 17 kids from WJohnson, 23 from Winston Churchill and 9 from Whitman opting to enroll in magnet programs.
There are a total of 374 students opting to enroll from 22 high schools (an average of 17 kids per high school). The average for the four high schools (Wooton, Winston Churchill, WJ and Whitman) is 23 per school. So it looks like these schools are well represented in the magnet programs.
OP do you know for sure that your child's magnet test results were well above the median scores for accepted students?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to MCPS, the W high schools are Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman (Walt), and Wootton (Thomas S.).

Churchill (Winston) is a C high school, along with Clarksburg.

Blair (Montgomery) is actually a B high school, not an M school. The other B schools are Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Blake (James Hubert). The M high schools are Magruder (Col. Zadok) and Montgomery (Richard).

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/globalContent/documents/List-Of-Schools.pdf

You are like my dog when she gets a bone or a stick. She holds on to it for dear life and growls if you try to take it away from her.

The W reference is a commonly understood shorthand to describe a set of 4 schools. It is not a formal designation. Think of it like the Big Ten, which has 14 schools in it, or the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) which now includes Notre Dame despite the fact that Indiana is nowhere near the Atlantic Coast.

Listen I'm not the person you're arguing with, but the Big Ten and the ACC actually exist. This "W" shit is completely made up. When I hear it in conversation I know I'm talking to someone who spends too much time on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to MCPS, the W high schools are Watkins Mill, Wheaton, Whitman (Walt), and Wootton (Thomas S.).

Churchill (Winston) is a C high school, along with Clarksburg.

Blair (Montgomery) is actually a B high school, not an M school. The other B schools are Bethesda-Chevy Chase and Blake (James Hubert). The M high schools are Magruder (Col. Zadok) and Montgomery (Richard).

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/globalContent/documents/List-Of-Schools.pdf

You are like my dog when she gets a bone or a stick. She holds on to it for dear life and growls if you try to take it away from her.

The W reference is a commonly understood shorthand to describe a set of 4 schools. It is not a formal designation. Think of it like the Big Ten, which has 14 schools in it, or the ACC (Atlantic Coast Conference) which now includes Notre Dame despite the fact that Indiana is nowhere near the Atlantic Coast.

Listen I'm not the person you're arguing with, but the Big Ten and the ACC actually exist. This "W" shit is completely made up. When I hear it in conversation I know I'm talking to someone who spends too much time on DCUM.

NP - Actually, W-school is not DCUM lingo. It's pretty a well known and pretty well used term.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Your theory doesn't hold up, OP.

Take a look at the data. Wooton and Walter Johnson are among the top high schools for # of kids sent to magnet programs.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/Appendix-B-Program-data-tables.pdf

Churchill also, although not technically a "W" school.

The only one that doesn't send a lot of kids to the magnets is Whitman and from what I've heard from talking to parents it's because Whitman is so good that why bother applying elsewhere. The commute is also terrible to Blair from that part of Bethesda.

There was a book about top Whitman students a few years ago and one kid went to Blair for a year and then his parents pulled him out because they thought Whitman would be better. He ended up going to Harvard so it sounds like it worked out for them.

Thank you for providing hard facts to respond to OP's question.
It looks like there are 44 kids from Wooton, 17 kids from WJohnson, 23 from Winston Churchill and 9 from Whitman opting to enroll in magnet programs.
There are a total of 374 students opting to enroll from 22 high schools (an average of 17 kids per high school). The average for the four high schools (Wooton, Winston Churchill, WJ and Whitman) is 23 per school. So it looks like these schools are well represented in the magnet programs.
OP do you know for sure that your child's magnet test results were well above the median scores for accepted students?

Interesting that only 6 students from Blair attend a magnet since they of all people are geographically close.

[Anonymous]

People were using "W" schools before the Internet!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your theory doesn't hold up, OP.

Take a look at the data. Wooton and Walter Johnson are among the top high schools for # of kids sent to magnet programs.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/Appendix-B-Program-data-tables.pdf

Churchill also, although not technically a "W" school.

The only one that doesn't send a lot of kids to the magnets is Whitman and from what I've heard from talking to parents it's because Whitman is so good that why bother applying elsewhere. The commute is also terrible to Blair from that part of Bethesda.

There was a book about top Whitman students a few years ago and one kid went to Blair for a year and then his parents pulled him out because they thought Whitman would be better. He ended up going to Harvard so it sounds like it worked out for them.

Thank you for providing hard facts to respond to OP's question.
It looks like there are 44 kids from Wooton, 17 kids from WJohnson, 23 from Winston Churchill and 9 from Whitman opting to enroll in magnet programs.
There are a total of 374 students opting to enroll from 22 high schools (an average of 17 kids per high school). The average for the four high schools (Wooton, Winston Churchill, WJ and Whitman) is 23 per school. So it looks like these schools are well represented in the magnet programs.
OP do you know for sure that your child's magnet test results were well above the median scores for accepted students?

Interesting that only 6 students from Blair attend a magnet since they of all people are geographically close.

If you look at the footnote it seems to imply that if a child is zoned for the high school which hosts the magnet program they enroll in, they are not included in the numbers so the Blair number of 6 are presumably kids who chose to attend RMIB and the RM number would presumably only include kids who chose to attend Blair SMAC.

[Anonymous]

Eye. Roll.

#privilegeproblems

[Anonymous]

Eye. roll.

#privilegeproblems

[Anonymous]

I teach in a MS that feeds into WJ. Every year at BTSN or on Open House Day, 15-20 parents tell me their child is going to Blair. I smile and nod, knowing there's little to no chance their child will get in. I feel sorry for the kids, who then feel like failures or that they have deeply disappointed their parents. Oddly, these same parents assume that all non-magnet students at Blair are inferior academically to their own children.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach in a MS that feeds into WJ. Every year at BTSN or on Open House Day, 15-20 parents tell me their child is going to Blair. I smile and nod, knowing there's little to no chance their child will get in. I feel sorry for the kids, who then feel like failures or that they have deeply disappointed their parents. Oddly, these same parents assume that all non-magnet students at Blair are inferior academically to their own children.

The question would be that how many do you see accepted in to magnet program from this MS and are these much smarter than the ones who don't get in to magnet?