Three W's?

[Anonymous]

What race do you think the majority of Jewish students are? Or did Judaism become a race recently?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What race do you think the majority of Jewish students are? Or did Judaism become a race recently?

Presumably the majority of Jewish students in MCPS are classified as white in the MCPS data.

But it shouldn't come as news, particularly to Jewish people, that there is a long history in the US of considering Jewish people non-white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland.

You are stretching.

The fact is, they have virtually no economic diversity. And it is getting worse, not better.

FARMS at Whitman: <5%
FARMS at WJ: 7.8%
FARMS at Churchill: 5.3%

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland.

Here are the FARMS and ever-FARMS rates for the high schools:

Whitman: <5%/<5%
Churchill: 5.3%/10.2%
Wootton: <5%/11.3%
WJ: 7.8%/17.5%

Here is MCPS overall: 33.2%/42.4%

(The ever-FARMS rate is the percent of students who are now on FARMS or who have been on FARMS in the past.)

[Anonymous]

For the love of God, it's W-O-O-T-T-O-N. Not Wooten, Wooton, not Woton. You people claim to speak so authoritatively about this subject and don't even know how to spell the school's name.

[Anonymous]

I would throw in BCC as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland.

You are stretching.

The fact is, they have virtually no economic diversity. And it is getting worse, not better.

FARMS at Whitman: <5%
FARMS at WJ: 7.8%
FARMS at Churchill: 5.3%

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/

I don't think that's a bad thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

So Jewish students aren't white?

How about economic diversity - how's that in the W schools?

Obviously the majority are in the higher SES brackets, but each school has neighborhoods and pockets that feed from lower-income areas. WJ has the subsidized housing that is part of the apartments in North Bethesda and Kensington. Whitman has the students who are bused in. And Churchill has Scotland.

You are stretching.

The fact is, they have virtually no economic diversity. And it is getting worse, not better.

FARMS at Whitman: <5%
FARMS at WJ: 7.8%
FARMS at Churchill: 5.3%

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19285/de-facto-segregation-threatens-montgomery-public-schools/

I don't think that's a bad thing.

For whom?

What is your view of segregation, in the era prior to Brown vs. Board of Education? Do you think that "wasn't a bad thing"?

[Anonymous]

Who is bussed in to Whitman?

[Anonymous]

Is BCC the same caliber? I thought it was on par with the W's...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So other than the 4 ws and the blair and RM magnets, are there any other acceptable schools? What about Northwest, and Quince Orchard?

Not even close. Those schools have too much "diversity". Code word for too many blacks and Hispanics.[/quote
Oh please. With the exception of "Whiteman" aka Whitman, these schools are no more than 60% white. That's pretty diverse in my book ESP for a high SES area, top school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is BCC the same caliber? I thought it was on par with the W's...

Absolutely. Whitman, WJ, Churchill and BCC are the class of MCPS HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.

What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.

Ummm...talk about silly comments. Since when are Jews not white? Granted, not all are white, but sheesh....