What are W schools?

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Dear OP, Einstein is a great school! And has a few things that a W school don't have

1.Strong Dance and Theatre program
2. VAC
3. Talented student body
4. DIVERSITY

You and your daughter made a great choice.

I rest my case.
If the parents at under performing schools can't write legibly, then how can we expect their kids to?

I’m a parent in a W community and think you’re a lot worse than someone with poor grammar. I’d rather my kid learn kindness than memorize Strunk and White.

Ooooh... burn, lol
What makes you think that I care about your opinion?

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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.

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.

Exactly. And as much as downcounty people hate it, Poolesville is consistently ranked #1 or #2 in the county. Downcounty elitists love to try to explain that away, but it happens year after year.

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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.

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.

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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.

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.

Right. But for these people, the center of the world is the District/Potomac/Bethesda. Everything is determined in relation to those places.

[Anonymous]

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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.

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.

Right. But for these people, the center of the world is the District/Potomac/Bethesda. Everything is determined in relation to those places.

And this is why I didn't want my kids to go to schools in those areas. Too many self-absorbed, righteous, and snobby people. I didn't want my kids to be influenced or surrounded by those types of people.

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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.

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.

Right. But for these people, the center of the world is the District/Potomac/Bethesda. Everything is determined in relation to those places.

And this is why I didn't want my kids to go to schools in those areas. Too many self-absorbed, righteous, and snobby people. I didn't want my kids to be influenced or surrounded by those types of people.

Don’t worry you are not any better.

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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.

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.

B-CC mainly rests on its past glory. These days it's a GS6 or 7 based on actual academic performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Many think W stands for white since these are the schools that remained largely segregated.

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Many think W stands for white since these are the schools that remained largely segregated.

Yup -- and the parents there try to act like they're just better, when in reality they're just full of rich white and Asian kids who can afford tutors.

[Anonymous]

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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.

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.

Right. But for these people, the center of the world is the District/Potomac/Bethesda. Everything is determined in relation to those places.

And this is why I didn't want my kids to go to schools in those areas. Too many self-absorbed, righteous, and snobby people. I didn't want my kids to be influenced or surrounded by those types of people.

And yet here you are posting on a thread about "W schools," which suggests that you have more than a passing interest in how those schools are perceived and characterized. How big is that chip on your shoulder?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Many think W stands for white since these are the schools that remained largely segregated.

Yup -- and the parents there try to act like they're just better, when in reality they're just full of rich white and Asian kids who can afford tutors.

You may be right that parents try to act like they’re just better, but what is wrong with rich white Asian kids who can afford tutors? I really don’t understand the contempt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Many think W stands for white since these are the schools that remained largely segregated.

Yup -- and the parents there try to act like they're just better, when in reality they're just full of rich white and Asian kids who can afford tutors.

You may be right that parents try to act like they’re just better, but what is wrong with rich white Asian kids who can afford tutors? I really don’t understand the contempt.

There's nothing wrong with them. The point is people are acting like the schools are better, when in reality they're just full of kids who can afford to pay for additional help. These other schools, by corollary, aren't worse just because their test scores are lower.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What excatly are W schools? I moved here from Delaware 2 years ago and just love this school system. My daughter is in 8th grade and picked Einstein for dance and IB! However, I'm hearing so much about W schools but don't know excatly what they are I even try to search it up. Are they magnets? Or private schools?

Many think W stands for white since these are the schools that remained largely segregated.

Yup -- and the parents there try to act like they're just better, when in reality they're just full of rich white and Asian kids who can afford tutors.

You may be right that parents try to act like they’re just better, but what is wrong with rich white Asian kids who can afford tutors? I really don’t understand the contempt.

There's nothing wrong with them. The point is people are acting like the schools are better, when in reality they're just full of kids who can afford to pay for additional help. These other schools, by corollary, aren't worse just because their test scores are lower.

LOL. Truth isn’t true?

[Anonymous]

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B-CC mainly rests on its past glory. These days it's a GS6 or 7 based on actual academic performance.

It's GS 9, actually. For comparison, Whitman is GS 8. But don't let facts stand in your way!

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There's nothing wrong with them. The point is people are acting like the schools are better, when in reality they're just full of kids who can afford to pay for additional help. These other schools, by corollary, aren't worse just because their test scores are lower.

LOL. Truth isn’t true?

Schools don't have test scores. Students in schools have test scores. If the students in School A have higher test scores than the students in School B because the parents of the students in School A can afford to pay for additional tutoring, does that mean that School A is a better school? The teachers in School A are better, the administrators in School A are better, the facilities in School A are better...?