Can "bad" schools get better?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The "poor"minority schools suck because they have unmotivated, underacheivers (along with high crime and drug use). The "rich" schools suck because they have ovely competitive, overachieivers (along with a strong sense of entitlement, materialism, snobbery and drug use). The key to a good school is true balance and true diversity.

EXACTLY! I feel the same way.

So which schools fall into that category. I think RM and QO. I am sure there are others too. Who else?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "poor"minority schools suck because they have unmotivated, underacheivers (along with high crime and drug use). The "rich" schools suck because they have ovely competitive, overachieivers (along with a strong sense of entitlement, materialism, snobbery and drug use). The key to a good school is true balance and true diversity.

EXACTLY! I feel the same way.

So which schools fall into that category. I think RM and QO. I am sure there are others too. Who else?

I think that Einstein is not a poor school and that many kids are thriving there without materialism/entitlement, etc. I agree with your suggestions too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "poor"minority schools suck because they have unmotivated, underacheivers (along with high crime and drug use). The "rich" schools suck because they have ovely competitive, overachieivers (along with a strong sense of entitlement, materialism, snobbery and drug use). The key to a good school is true balance and true diversity.

EXACTLY! I feel the same way.

So which schools fall into that category. I think RM and QO. I am sure there are others too. Who else?

I think that Einstein is not a poor school and that many kids are thriving there without materialism/entitlement, etc. I agree with your suggestions too.

[Anonymous]

No poors at Churchill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No poors at Churchill.

Forgetting about Scotland, are we? the poorest hamlet in all of MoCo goes to Churchill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

... access to lots of designer drugs, nice cars in the parking lot, spoiled kids. Yep, I want to live in the W cluster.

Hey, at least those kids can pass standardized tests and will go to college!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No poors at Churchill.

Forgetting about Scotland, are we? the poorest hamlet in all of MoCo goes to Churchill.

Scotland was there before Churchill, though. And the residents refused to be pushed out.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/13/AR2007011301255.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

... access to lots of designer drugs, nice cars in the parking lot, spoiled kids. Yep, I want to live in the W cluster.

Hey, at least those kids can pass standardized tests and will go to college!

Between 2001 and 2010, 47% of MCPS graduates went to four-year colleges in the fall after graduation. Do the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac account for 47% of MCPS enrollment?

http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2012/College%20Enrollment%20Persistence%20and%20Degree%20Attainment%20final.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

shorter commute downtown + good test scores + engaged student body/community.

nothing more, nothing less. stop trying to create a racist, narrow-minded anything of those three attributes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

... access to lots of designer drugs, nice cars in the parking lot, spoiled kids. Yep, I want to live in the W cluster.

Hey, at least those kids can pass standardized tests and will go to college!

Between 2001 and 2010, 47% of MCPS graduates went to four-year colleges in the fall after graduation. Do the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac account for 47% of MCPS enrollment?

http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2012/College%20Enrollment%20Persistence%20and%20Degree%20Attainment%20final.pdf

Graduates implies you graduated. Start there. Then worry about the community college or (gasp) a 4 year university stats.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op - assuming you are defining "good" or "bad" based on academic performance, I think the answer to your question is "not likely." In my view, the MCPS has turned the corner already. Its good days are behind us.

This.

+1. If you have young children, I'd recommend you look around other school districts.

OP, when the PPs say, "MCPS's good days are behind us," what they mean is: the population of Montgomery County is becoming less white, less affluent, and less native-born.

Coupled with common core disaster

tripled with out-of-control tax hikes and entitlements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

shorter commute downtown + good test scores + engaged student body/community.

nothing more, nothing less. stop trying to create a racist, narrow-minded anything of those three attributes.

Hyattsville and College Park have short commutes but I don't see anyone flocking over to that side of town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

shorter commute downtown + good test scores + engaged student body/community.

nothing more, nothing less. stop trying to create a racist, narrow-minded anything of those three attributes.

Hyattsville and College Park have short commutes but I don't see anyone flocking over to that side of town.

A+B+C doesn't mean just comment on A. and no, driving in via 50 or 495/Conn Ave is not tons of fun (if your office not near subway line you need. and if it were more reliable subway system).
Nice try though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

... access to lots of designer drugs, nice cars in the parking lot, spoiled kids. Yep, I want to live in the W cluster.

Hey, at least those kids can pass standardized tests and will go to college!

And while at college, those same kids will continue to take the designer drugs, Adderall to keep up the grades, will expect mommy and daddy to pay for everything and pout and stomp when they don't get their way, and their parents will come on to DCUM complaining about how their special snowflake is so unappreciative, expects their own off-campus apartment (not a studio mind you), and refuses to get a job to help pay for college. Oh sorry, these kids don't need jobs. Their parents are going to pay for everything, and then some after they graduate.

Yea, kids from those non W schools don't pass standardized tests or go to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People want W schools for a reason, better test scores, more involved parents and stronger PTA and less of a chance your kid will get stabbed in the hallway or have their designer jacket stolen.

... access to lots of designer drugs, nice cars in the parking lot, spoiled kids. Yep, I want to live in the W cluster.

Hey, at least those kids can pass standardized tests and will go to college!

Between 2001 and 2010, 47% of MCPS graduates went to four-year colleges in the fall after graduation. Do the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac account for 47% of MCPS enrollment?

http://montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/sharedaccountability/reports/2012/College%20Enrollment%20Persistence%20and%20Degree%20Attainment%20final.pdf

Graduates implies you graduated. Start there. Then worry about the community college or (gasp) a 4 year university stats.

What is your point? But ok. Between 2001 and 2010, there were 94,232 high school graduates. Did the high schools in Bethesda and Potomac produce 94,232 graduates in 10 years, for an average of 9,423.2 graduates per year.
The total current school capacity of Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Churchill combined is 8,385.

Plus also I personally know several people who graduated from non-Bethesda, non-Potomac MCPS high schools during that time period!