What are W schools?

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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!

[Anonymous]

Op, aren’t you glad you asked the question? Welcome to this miserable school system called MCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op, aren’t you glad you asked the question? Welcome to this miserable school system called MCPS.

Oh good grief. This isn't a school-system problem. This is a Montgomery-County-parents problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op, aren’t you glad you asked the question? Welcome to this miserable school system called MCPS.

Oh good grief. This isn't a school-system problem. This is a Montgomery-County-parents problem.

+1

and why can't anyone spell Wootton??

[Anonymous]

North*W*ood is the premier W school

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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.

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

^^Wootton isn't that wealthy or white so how is it a W? also way too far up 270 to be considered elite. definitely placed in the middle class of MoCo.

wtf? look at the income bands. Average HHI for Wootton is the same or close as any of the other W's. If you're going to be nasty, at least be factually accurate.

Wootton is part of the W schools. I think that ^^pp is not up to date on SES of the area.

https://ggwash.org/view/31601/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools

" 6 top-ranked high schools contain a plurality of the county’s white students: Sherwood, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, and the vaunted “W schools,” Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson, Walt Whitman and Thomas Wootton. We’ll call these the “Top White” schools."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes BCC is part of the top HSs in MCPS. Great results on various tests, involved and caring student body, IB grads are excellent and play well into top 25 colleges, safe school/low absenteesim/low drop out rates/low pregnancy rates, etc.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Best performing student body on standardized tests, college entrance tests, AP tests, high honor role, etc.

Non-quantitatively speaking, they have very active student bodies, involved parents, pretty good teacher on whole, good college results.

All are large, 1500+ Student high schools.

These are fairly objection quantitative and qualitative ways to judge a school. Besides special magnet or arts programs embedded in a host school. It is not difficult to see why MoCo planners put special programs in far off schools in order to bolster real estate there and test scores at the school.

Our neighborhood has lots of african americans, but they all go to DC private schools and do very well. They don't trust MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Wootton has always been a W school.

You must not be from MoCo bc Wootton has not always been a W school. W schools in the past referred to Winston Churchill, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson bc their names begin with the letter W and they were also rivals. They are also situated in the richest part of MoCo and were more white (another meaning to W schools). Wootton still isn’t really a W school but parents in that area have tried to place it in that group (you can guess why). The Wootton area wasn’t always expensive or nice. Same with B-CC, which used to be a horrible area. Many ppl don’t even realize what actually happens at W schools...lots of drugs, alcohol, racism, classism, cheating scandals, parents getting minorities and low income kids kicked out, focus groups to help with testing stats.

-signed someone who’s lived in MoCo way too long, graduated from MCPS and has worked for MCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op, aren’t you glad you asked the question? Welcome to this miserable school system called MCPS.

Oh good grief. This isn't a school-system problem. This is a Montgomery-County-parents problem.

It isn't specific to MoCo, either. This happens in every area that has any real socioeconomic & racial diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wheaton?

Watkins Mill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Wootton has always been a W school.

You must not be from MoCo bc Wootton has not always been a W school. W schools in the past referred to Winston Churchill, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson bc their names begin with the letter W and they were also rivals. They are also situated in the richest part of MoCo and were more white (another meaning to W schools). Wootton still isn’t really a W school but parents in that area have tried to place it in that group (you can guess why). The Wootton area wasn’t always expensive or nice. Same with B-CC, which used to be a horrible area. Many ppl don’t even realize what actually happens at W schools...lots of drugs, alcohol, racism, classism, cheating scandals, parents getting minorities and low income kids kicked out, focus groups to help with testing stats.

-signed someone who’s lived in MoCo way too long, graduated from MCPS and has worked for MCPS.

this is accurate, Wootton was considered a joke until the dual GS13 families got priced out of the other Ws

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes BCC is part of the top HSs in MCPS. Great results on various tests, involved and caring student body, IB grads are excellent and play well into top 25 colleges, safe school/low absenteesim/low drop out rates/low pregnancy rates, etc.

Well, we know where your kid goes to school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yes BCC is part of the top HSs in MCPS. Great results on various tests, involved and caring student body, IB grads are excellent and play well into top 25 colleges, safe school/low absenteesim/low drop out rates/low pregnancy rates, etc.

Well, we know where your kid goes to school.

Not the PP, but why is that a problem? I don't get why DCUM people are so hesitant to say where their kid goes to school. No one can identify you from that information.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Best performing student body on standardized tests, college entrance tests, AP tests, high honor role, etc.

Non-quantitatively speaking, they have very active student bodies, involved parents, pretty good teacher on whole, good college results.

All are large, 1500+ Student high schools.

These are fairly objection quantitative and qualitative ways to judge a school. Besides special magnet or arts programs embedded in a host school. It is not difficult to see why MoCo planners put special programs in far off schools in order to bolster real estate there and test scores at the school.

Our neighborhood has lots of african americans, but they all go to DC private schools and do very well. They don't trust MCPS.

So typical of the elitist, I'm better and richer than you mentality. Again, far flung areas of MCPS such as Northwest, Clarksburg, Poolesville, Damascus do just fine and lots of us have kids who are successful. The only magnet up here is Poolesville. We are not uneducated hicks or thugs up here as you would like to think so.