Tell me about Albert Einstein HS

[Anonymous]

This might explain why we (in an Einstein neighborhood) make a comfortable salary and feel like we have much more than we need, and some people in the BCC neighborhoods make the same amount we make and find themselves embarrassed at not being wealthy enough. I think we'll stay here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My SS neighborhood (Woodside) feeds into Einstein. My kids are still in ES so here's my two cents from the teenage babysitter perspective. Over the years I've had four Einstein students as sitters, two Blair students, and one BCC. All of them have been great young women, smart and motivated and college-bound and basically "good girls." The ones at Einstein and Blair have had really good things to say about their schools; they were involved in sports, music, clubs, etc. The one at BCC, on the other hand, broke my heart one night as I drove her home and she blurted that she felt like a total outcast because she was the only daughter of a single mom and they lived in an apartment and the crappy used car she had to drive got made fun of by her richer classmates; she said the class distinctions were making her miserable and she hated BCC. Now, I'm sure you can't paint all of BCC with that broad stroke, but it does suggest there's more to a school than its gossipy surface reputation (whether that be "violent" or "amazing")...

When we moved a couple years ago, we stayed in SS and within the DCC feeders with the above in mind and many other reasons too (enumerated by the Woodside Park poster and others) -- and we could have afforded something plenty nice in Bethesda.

Maybe sometime you'll have a heart-to-heart with one of the unmotivated and under-achieving kids at Einstein, of whom there are far too many, and report back with another anecdote.

[Anonymous]

PP, please tell us your personal experience with Einstein and how you have come to conclude it is full of unmotivated students. Or else I will begin to spread the rumor that Wootton is full of meth addicts. It is, haven't you heard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP, please tell us your personal experience with Einstein and how you have come to conclude it is full of unmotivated students. Or else I will begin to spread the rumor that Wootton is full of meth addicts. It is, haven't you heard?

How do you exspect parents who have to send their kids to Einstein to respond? The part I find funny is the few who live in boundary but proclaim "mine are magnate". They acknowledge that their are better programs and locations but they don't get that most other options in county for High school are better too? If Einstein is so great why send them to magnate? Because it is better, we'll just about every other high school in MoCo is better too. Some make their kids slam the books and prey to get out others just move but most people try to avoid that school unless they are complacent or ignorant to what makes a quality school.

But hey it is still the 2nd best high school in Silver Spring so you could be doing worse and at least you're not PG

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

How do you exspect parents who have to send their kids to Einstein to respond? The part I find funny is the few who live in boundary but proclaim "mine are magnate". They acknowledge that their are better programs and locations but they don't get that most other options in county for High school are better too? If Einstein is so great why send them to magnate? Because it is better, we'll just about every other high school in MoCo is better too. Some make their kids slam the books and prey to get out others just move but most people try to avoid that school unless they are complacent or ignorant to what makes a quality school.

But hey it is still the 2nd best high school in Silver Spring so you could be doing worse and at least you're not PG

With friends like these, the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac don't need enemies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This might explain why we (in an Einstein neighborhood) make a comfortable salary and feel like we have much more than we need, and some people in the BCC neighborhoods make the same amount we make and find themselves embarrassed at not being wealthy enough. I think we'll stay here.

Yes. My child had a spot at BCC due to attending RCF and Westland (we live in Silver Spring) and she is really glad to be leaving that cluster and going to a DCC high school. (We have an HHI of $250K a year so we are not exactly poor!) I know other immersion parents whose kids did continue on to BCC and they had a lot to say about the presence of excessive wealth, drugs, social pressure around possessions, etc.

There are lots of very nice kids at BCC, to be sure. But the kids I know from DCC schools are great -- well-rounded with lots of interests. I know several kids who go to Einstein and they and their families love it -- the arts opportunities are great, and it's a smaller sized school, too, and not overcrowded. There are plenty of opportunities for advanced and AP classes and interaction with smart and motivated kids.

I wouldn't hesitate to send my kid to Einstein!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

How do you exspect parents who have to send their kids to Einstein to respond? The part I find funny is the few who live in boundary but proclaim "mine are magnate". They acknowledge that their are better programs and locations but they don't get that most other options in county for High school are better too? If Einstein is so great why send them to magnate? Because it is better, we'll just about every other high school in MoCo is better too. Some make their kids slam the books and prey to get out others just move but most people try to avoid that school unless they are complacent or ignorant to what makes a quality school.

But hey it is still the 2nd best high school in Silver Spring so you could be doing worse and at least you're not PG

With friends like these, the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac don't need enemies.

I bet the kids in the DCC can all spell magnet.

[Anonymous]

I always find these threads sort of bizarre: the only acceptable response is absolute praise of the school in question, along with requisite bashing of the 'so-called' better schools like the Ws and BCC. This thread has chosen to use BCC as the scapegoat, all based on rumor or the babysitter you used once or some other random source. But of course if someone says something negative about the DCC school, it's classist and elitist and racist and completely uninformed.

I think it's great that there are so many happy Einstein families (not sure how many have actually posted here; seems like more of you send your kids to magnets or haven't hit MS/HS years yet.) But slamming other schools doesn't actually make your choices superior ones. It just makes you sound defensive and really rude.

[Anonymous]

OP: How is Einstein?
Various Einstein posters: We like Einstein/we hear good things about Einstein.
The inevitable posters who apparently have no first-hand knowledge of Einstein: Well, you shouldn't. Einstein is awful and totally inferior to the far wealthier high schools further west.
Various Einstein posters: Those high schools have problems too.
You: Why must Einstein posters bash the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP: How is Einstein?
Various Einstein posters: We like Einstein/we hear good things about Einstein.
The inevitable posters who apparently have no first-hand knowledge of Einstein: Well, you shouldn't. Einstein is awful and totally inferior to the far wealthier high schools further west.
Various Einstein posters: Those high schools have problems too.
You: Why must Einstein posters bash the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac?

Perfect recap! That is exactly what happened! Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Even your recap is biased. There's very little negative here about Einstein - two posts on the first few pages saying BCC is a better school for various reasons. Most of the rest of the posts are people saying their non-W school is wonderful, their Einstein feeder or neighborhood is wonderful, etc. But many of these pro-Einstein posts feel the need for gratuitous and mostly poorly sourced swipes at BCC as filled with rich white drug addicts and mean girls. Why is that okay? Why do those who wish to defend their choice of Einstein rely on smearing other schools to do it?

[Anonymous]

I guess you missed the post at 15:31.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Even your recap is biased. There's very little negative here about Einstein - two posts on the first few pages saying BCC is a better school for various reasons. Most of the rest of the posts are people saying their non-W school is wonderful, their Einstein feeder or neighborhood is wonderful, etc. But many of these pro-Einstein posts feel the need for gratuitous and mostly poorly sourced swipes at BCC as filled with rich white drug addicts and mean girls. Why is that okay? Why do those who wish to defend their choice of Einstein rely on smearing other schools to do it?

Why are you even in this conversation?

[Anonymous]

Future Einstein parent here - would some please share where they top 10-15% of students are headed to in the fall?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Future Einstein parent here - would some please share where they top 10-15% of students are headed to in the fall?

Kids usually go back to SCHOOL in the fall.