safety of MCPS/Blair
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Anonymous
The MAGA is strong in this one! |
Anonymous
Babe, no one is envious of Blair. Seriously. Blair is only good if you're in the magnet program, but it's nerdy. There are much better high school options (non Ws too) that provide a better high school experience for most kids. |
Anonymous
So my gen pop kid in Blair is…stupid? Getting a sub par education? Heading to a state flagship with significant merit based solely on her good looks and personality? All of the above? |
Anonymous
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I wonder how many of the folks on this thread are repeat posters. Why can't we just agree that there are many great HS options in MoCo?
My kids are at Blair, and they are absolutely thriving. The same kid would probably thrive at B-CC or RM or any other school. I don't know why folks in this area are so nasty, but why not just be happy we live someplace with strong options no matter your income, commute needs, etc? |
Anonymous
My kids at Blair are thriving as well. It’s not the school, it’s the kid. But people need to rationalize their choice to live in a fancier school district any way they can. If they think their kid is getting a much better education, because they need to believe that to justify their choices, then I say let them. Everyone is entitled to some delusion in their life. |
Anonymous
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Zoned for blair and our dcc pick was basically "anything but Blair." Reasons: the kids we knew from middle school, the size of the school, and the heavy stem focus. Also, not really a fan of CAP, it's more focused on journalism and public speaking than humanities.
Many of our neighbors love Blair. We toured and did not. |
Anonymous
There's a poster on here that repeatedly claims that there is Blair envy; and many people find it very boastful and ridiculous, so it ignites the back and fourth. |
Anonymous
I was skeptical at first, too, but Blair's envy is real. |
Anonymous
Boy times have really changed! |
Anonymous
We are in the Churchill zone but had one child at Blair who recently graduated. Blair is a great school and our family loves it a lot more than Churchill but there's no such thing as Blair envy. It's something insecure parents have made up to make themselves feel better. We've noticed DCC parents spend a lot of time thinking about and putting down the W schools. They compare stats like college admissions and test scores and celebrate when their area seems to do better by some measure. But no one we know at the Ws thinks about the DCC, much less Blair, other than the magnet, at all. It's a weird made up competition by one side only. |
Anonymous
There is a lot of resentment directed toward the magnet. Maybe it's parents who felt snubbed. I don't honestly know, but just reading this thread it seems very real. |
Anonymous
I’m not100% sure it’s envy, per se, but coming to the realization that they paid a premium to get in a “good” school zone, when in fact they could have paid much much less in the Blair zone and gotten the same exact education. They HAVE to cut down Blair to make their choices/investment worthwhile. Otherwise what separates them from those slackers in the DCC? |
Anonymous
| I assure you there are a lot of parents in Kensington who spend a lot of time worrying about the DCC and the implications of getting rezoned to it. Those of us nearby who are zoned to the DCC find it kind of funny. |
Anonymous
Nailed it! |
Anonymous
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I think everyone just made the point about DCC people thinking too much about W school people and them not thinking anything about the DCC.
All these posts are DCC people saying W people cut them down but really in all the years of reading things I rarely really see any criticism of Blair at all. On the rare occasion when someone posts something negative -and it's usually someone identifying themselves as a Blair parent - they accuse that person of being a W parent masquerading as a Blair parent making up lies. Get a grip people. W parents are not doing that! |