Question about Woodward High School and Kensington/Garrett Park real estate

[Anonymous]

All of this is superfluous..... It won't matter where you buy eventually. The county and it schools are going down the tubes. Huge budget deficits, tons retirees and not enough workers, too much spending, decreasing quality schools, increased taxes likely.....why MoCo? At this rate, the better deal will be a home in a cheaper location + private school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of this is superfluous..... It won't matter where you buy eventually. The county and it schools are going down the tubes. Huge budget deficits, tons retirees and not enough workers, too much spending, decreasing quality schools, increased taxes likely.....why MoCo? At this rate, the better deal will be a home in a cheaper location + private school.

Oh goodness...She's BAAAACK. Or he. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Did you even have a question?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP I would ignore the relentless Einstein booster. Just Google Einstein -lots of articles on truancy problems, drop out and failure rates, fights and a few years ago a girl was beaten to death right behind the school. The boosters will say that is not important and happens everywhere which is ridiculous.

Google all the school and they each have their issues. Drop out, truancy are parenting issues but many may drop out for financial or other reasons. There are fights at every school. There have been significant things happen at the W schools. The only difference is more money.

Big difference

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP I would ignore the relentless Einstein booster. Just Google Einstein -lots of articles on truancy problems, drop out and failure rates, fights and a few years ago a girl was beaten to death right behind the school. The boosters will say that is not important and happens everywhere which is ridiculous.

Google all the school and they each have their issues. Drop out, truancy are parenting issues but many may drop out for financial or other reasons. There are fights at every school. There have been significant things happen at the W schools. The only difference is more money.[/quote]

Big difference

The big difference at the W schools is better education.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

Some people don’t get that sending a high-performing UMC class kid to high schools does not turn him into a low-income non-English speaking immigrant just because he shares the cafeteria with some of them. Little Connor is not going to join MS13. He’s going to be in the band and on the golf team and go to Denison. Just like he would have at WJ. And maybe he’ll be slightly more familiar with people different from himself.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

Some people don’t get that sending a high-performing UMC class kid to high schools does not turn him into a low-income non-English speaking immigrant just because he shares the cafeteria with some of them. Little Connor is not going to join MS13. He’s going to be in the band and on the golf team and go to Denison. Just like he would have at WJ. And maybe he’ll be slightly more familiar with people different from himself.

TRUTH

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

Some people don’t get that sending a high-performing UMC class kid to high schools does not turn him into a low-income non-English speaking immigrant just because he shares the cafeteria with some of them. Little Connor is not going to join MS13. He’s going to be in the band and on the golf team and go to Denison. Just like he would have at WJ. And maybe he’ll be slightly more familiar with people different from himself.

TRUTH

Also, IME there is less keeping-up-with-the-Joneses. SIL and her family stretched to live in the best performing school district in their state. All the kids in their classes had iPhones by 6th grade, among other things. There is a constant pressure to pay for activities, trips, clothes etc. that are really beyond their means.

This may not be an issue for OP but the fact that they are concerned about home prices indicates it may be.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

Some people don’t get that sending a high-performing UMC class kid to high schools does not turn him into a low-income non-English speaking immigrant just because he shares the cafeteria with some of them. Little Connor is not going to join MS13. He’s going to be in the band and on the golf team and go to Denison. Just like he would have at WJ. And maybe he’ll be slightly more familiar with people different from himself.

TRUTH

Also, IME there is less keeping-up-with-the-Joneses. SIL and her family stretched to live in the best performing school district in their state. All the kids in their classes had iPhones by 6th grade, among other things. There is a constant pressure to pay for activities, trips, clothes etc. that are really beyond their means.

This may not be an issue for OP but the fact that they are concerned about home prices indicates it may be.

So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice.

[Anonymous]

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So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would never consider sending my kids to Einstein. 70% of the kids can't even pass a basic ELA test. It has one of the highest drop put rates in the county despite being the focus of a WAPO article on extreme truancy being overlooked to keep kids graduating. It ends up near the bottom on every list generated by MCPS.

OK, then don't. But plenty of other people do.

Correct until their kid drops out that is

Some people don’t get that sending a high-performing UMC class kid to high schools does not turn him into a low-income non-English speaking immigrant just because he shares the cafeteria with some of them. Little Connor is not going to join MS13. He’s going to be in the band and on the golf team and go to Denison. Just like he would have at WJ. And maybe he’ll be slightly more familiar with people different from himself.

I think I love you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

How does the part of Kensington that sends kids to Parkwood compare to the part in the BCC district?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So true. OP, if you want to keep up with the Parkwood or Town of Kensington side of town, do you have money for a country club membership and all the other trappings of UMC life? Your kids will be the poorer ones on the block and they will notice. [/quote

What? Have you ever been to Parkwood or Town of Kensington?

Yep. I live in Kensington Heights and the Ktown and Parkwood people can be really insufferable. They have to somehow convince themselves they are better because they spent $200k more on a house to send kids to Parkwood ES with massive overcrowding. I’ve noticed that the white UMC kids from einsten are headed to similar colleges as the ones on the WJ side.

How does the part of Kensington that sends kids to Parkwood compare to the part in the BCC district?