What are W schools?
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Anonymous
| 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? |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Public’s located in high SES area. More whites and more Asian kids. Test higher than others but constantly get criticized here for some reason. |
Anonymous
Why are they higher? Better teachers? |
Anonymous
See the parts in bold. |
Anonymous
They have higher test scores because test scores are 100% correlated with income and these are the wealthiest schools. There is no evidence that they have the best teachers. |
Anonymous
| Wheaton? |
Anonymous
The W stands for White and Wealth. |
Anonymous
More academically driven kids. |
Anonymous
No |
Anonymous
Whoosh! |
Anonymous
| Oh boy, here we go... |
Anonymous
Tutors |
Anonymous
| Op, as you can sense already poor folks don’t like w school families. Lol |
Anonymous
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I suspect this is a troll post, but in case it's real...
OP, your daughter is going to love Einstein. Great school, great community! |