Can "bad" schools get better?

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Anonymous wrote:I think in case of RM, some high priced new housing changed the demographic a bitin teh last 10-15 years. I am not sure about Blair. Einstein has really turned around based on the school itself. I was just talking to A DCC parent who said it was her child's first choice..

Einstein is still terrible

What is your first-hand, recent experience with Einstein?

Ignore the Einstein troll. He/she shows up in every thread about DCC schools and trashes Einstein. When asked about personal experience with the school, troll conveniently doesn't reply.

NP here - I think PP is right though. Einstein is not one of the super performing schools in MCPS

But it's no longer one of the two or three worst, which it was for decades along with Wheaton.

Which ARE the two or 3 worst?

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Are those states really known for education? They don't come to my mind..Massachusetts yes. Texas no.

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PP - you are going to start an unhelpful firestorm with that question. What are you trying to figure out?

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Not enough higher income homes feeding into them-all the low income apartments bring down the schools.

One might think that it was the purpose of the students to serve the schools, instead of the other way around.

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Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a $400-500,000 dollar home in a decent school district in this area is basically a shitshack if it even exists at all. If you go to Vermont, or Texas, or Georgia you can have a huge lovely home with great schools.

Yes. That is because there are fewer people with money who want to live there.

Who wants to live in a 900 sq, ft, shitshack in Bethesda? (given the fact that you will not be able to tear down and build a McMansion on the small plot of land?

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Anonymous wrote:The sad thing is that a $400-500,000 dollar home in a decent school district in this area is basically a shitshack if it even exists at all. If you go to Vermont, or Texas, or Georgia you can have a huge lovely home with great schools.

Yes. That is because there are fewer people with money who want to live there.

Who wants to live in a 900 sq, ft, shitshack in Bethesda? (given the fact that you will not be able to tear down and build a McMansion on the small plot of land?

Lots of people, evidently, if you can't buy it for less than $500,000.

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Which ARE the two or 3 worst?

That depends on how you define "worst". If you define "worst" as "highest proportion of poor students", then Wheaton.

http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/

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Anonymous wrote:PP - you are going to start an unhelpful firestorm with that question. What are you trying to figure out?

Almost everything on this forum is an unhelpful firestorm.

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Anonymous wrote:I think you guys are missing the big point. The overcrowding issue is here to stay. It's driven by the inflex of new comers to the county. It will continue.

Who are the new comers?

illegal immigrants

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Anonymous wrote:I think you guys are missing the big point. The overcrowding issue is here to stay. It's driven by the inflex of new comers to the county. It will continue.

Yes, many schools are over capacity, because enrollment in MCPS is increasing, because the population of Montgomery County is increasing. I'm not sure why this is "the big point", though?

Overcrowding itself is not a big issue providing 1) state/county has money (and land) to keep building; 2) the performance of MCPS can be maintained; and 3) the burden on tax payers is not increased. As it stands now, the answer to 1) is no; the answer to 2) is "no" and answer to 3) is also "no".

This is why I said earlier the MCPS has turn the corner (not for better).

This is exactly right. The increase in population are not really paying their share in taxes either and use up a huge amount of school resources. So either the state or the middle class has to fork up the money.

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Anonymous wrote:If all the rich white people did not feel the need to either remain in or flee to Bethesda, Chevy Chase or Potomac, there would be more even test scores and SES, racial balance among MCPS-it is basically a system of haves and have nots-which makes it suck across the board.

It's called PGPS!

Just kidding people, just kidding...

But really you aren't. We are slowly working our way to PG status as many of the higher earning families are moving to Howard and Fairfax.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't designer drugs safer

who are you and where did you come from?

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14:09 - 10 to 15 years is my guess

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Anonymous wrote:The "poor"minority schools suck because they have unmotivated, underacheivers (along with high crime and drug use). The "rich" schools suck because they have ovely competitive, overachieivers (along with a strong sense of entitlement, materialism, snobbery and drug use). The key to a good school is true balance and true diversity.

EXACTLY! I feel the same way.

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Anonymous wrote:Aren't designer drugs safer

Are you being sarcastic, or are you a teen who's been lead to believe this because no semi-intelligent adult would think this. Think about how many famous people in the past few years alone have died from an overdose of these designer/Rx drugs.