Where do you consider MCPS high schools on a scale of good-bad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blair non magnets are getting accepted to great colleges ( UMD college Park, UVA, Tulane, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Georgia)., Tech)

More kids go to jail from Blair than all those schools combined, just the facts

Links for your "facts"?
That's what I thought.
Your Blair envy is showing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

You have never heard as poor drop outs as low quality kids? Pull your head out of your ass

It isn’t that all poor kids are bad, just poor kids are much less likely to be successful. Unsuccessful people often resort to doing ratchet stuff in slummy places with dubious results. Even if society is nudging them to those outcomes it is still their truth.

If they're drop-outs, they're not at the high school.

And no, I don't hear people refer to poor people as low-quality people, in real life. Only on DCUM - well, and elsewhere in anonymous Internet comment land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't have a clue about their truths. Some of those kids have been through more hardships in the first two years of their lives than you will ever know in your entire life.

Ignorant.

That just means there parents sucked and were ineffective, traits they will most likely hand down. Hence why high achievers have high achieving kids and why people seek out strong SES schools. See you do get it, you’re just bitter

#RichKidsMatter

[Anonymous]

What a stupid list. At least GS, Niche, etc. provide a description on how they derived their ratings. The ratings here are based off of 1-2 DCUM parents who are basing it off their ass? People who have no experience or real data in 98% of these schools need to just shut up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The magnet curricula throughout MCPS (and at all grade levels) is superior to the non-magnet curricula.

This is just a list of schools in order of how wealthy the parents are.

No, it is a list of quality of the local cohort, it just happens to be that better off parents produce better performers at a much higher rate.

In real life, I never hear people referring to the kids of low-income, little-education people as low-quality kids. But on DCUM, people do this all. the. time. Seriously, who are you all?!

You have never heard as poor drop outs as low quality kids? Pull your head out of your ass

It isn’t that all poor kids are bad, just poor kids are much less likely to be successful. Unsuccessful people often resort to doing ratchet stuff in slummy places with dubious results. Even if society is nudging them to those outcomes it is still their truth.

If they're drop-outs, they're not at the high school.

And no, I don't hear people refer to poor people as low-quality people, in real life. Only on DCUM - well, and elsewhere in anonymous Internet comment land.

You have never heard of people making fun of the help, gadners or homeless. What do you think people mean when they roll their eyes at silver spring or the like. People put others down all the time mostly to prop up their own insecurities but it still happens all the time. You are just being oblivious

And lots of dropouts at schools like Einstein are already failed students just attending due to age or lack of better options at home. They haven’t done work in years just go for their friends, girls and parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a stupid list. At least GS, Niche, etc. provide a description on how they derived their ratings. The ratings here are based off of 1-2 DCUM parents who are basing it off their ass? People who have no experience or real data in 98% of these schools need to just shut up.

Born on 3rd base, thinking they hit a home run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You don't have a clue about their truths. Some of those kids have been through more hardships in the first two years of their lives than you will ever know in your entire life.

Ignorant.

That just means there parents sucked and were ineffective, traits they will most likely hand down. Hence why high achievers have high achieving kids and why people seek out strong SES schools. See you do get it, you’re just bitter

#RichKidsMatter

God I hope this is sarcasm, because with some parents on DCUM, you never know.

[Anonymous]

We purposely put our kids in a diverse, middle of the pack HS to avoid the extreme ends of the spectrum (lots of entitled, rich kids vs lots of troubled, poor kids). We figured a school in the middle of these would make it easy for our kids to find a good group of friends who share the same interests as them and who care about education; without the pressures or the stress of being in either one of these extreme environments.

[Anonymous]

This thread is exactly the reason we ran - and ran far, far away.

#neverlookingback

[Anonymous]

Move somewhere. Join the community. Volunteer. Have babies. Meet neighbors. Become part of schools, churches, activities, sports, scouts, theater, local government, community events. Send your kids to that local high school. Bloom where you’re planted. Let them be FROM somewhere.

The opposite of this: move somewhere based on f*cking rankings.

[Anonymous]

If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1. Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2. Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3. Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4. Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5. Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6. Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7. Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9. Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10. Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11. Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12. Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13. Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14. James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15. Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16. Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17. Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18. Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19. Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20. Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21. Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22. John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23. Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24. Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25. Wheaton High (77.36 percent)

[Anonymous]

^ why by graduation rates, which is also a reflection of SES.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ why by graduation rates, which is also a reflection of SES.

A lot of things are based on SES. Better by graduation rates rather than basing it off of nothing as what the other previous posters have been doing. High graduation rates mean that there is a good number of kids who care about well, graduating.. which isn't a high bar in my opinion even so for kids from low SES. Schools that have low graduation rates (lower than the state average) would concern me big time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1. Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2. Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3. Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4. Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5. Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6. Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7. Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9. Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10. Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11. Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12. Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13. Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14. James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15. Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16. Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17. Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18. Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19. Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20. Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21. Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22. John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23. Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24. Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25. Wheaton High (77.36 percent)

Ha ha! Do you work for MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you want to base your ratings on something, at least do it by graduation rates. You can come up with your own tiers from here.

1. Walt Whitman High (97.9 percent)
2. Thomas S. Wootton High (97.8 percent)
3. Winston Churchill High (97.4 percent)
4. Poolesville High (96.2 percent)
5. Walter Johnson High (95.8 percent)
6. Quince Orchard High (95.6 percent)
7. Northwest High (94.95 percent)
8. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High (94.42 percent)
9. Damascus High (93.98 percent)
10. Sherwood High (93.89 percent)
11. Richard Montgomery High (92.24 percent)
12. Clarksburg High (91.52 percent)
13. Paint Branch High (90.55 percent)
14. James Hubert Blake High (90.21 percent)
15. Montgomery Blair High (86.21 percent)
16. Col. Zadok Magruder High (89.59 percent)
17. Springbrook High (87.83 percent)
18. Seneca Valley High (86.21 percent)
19. Rockville High (86.02 percent)
20. Watkins Mill High (84.5 percent)
21. Albert Einstein High (81.93 percent)
22. John F. Kennedy High (81.22 percent)
23. Northwood High (79.36 percent)
24. Gaithersburg High (77.39 percent)
25. Wheaton High (77.36 percent)

Ha ha! Do you work for MCPS?

No I don't. What's your point? or does the data not fit your "story"?