S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
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Anonymous
Can't we all just agree that both RM IB and Blair Magnets are great programs which graduate high achievers? They are all (RM IB, Blair STEM, and Blair CAP) very different programs that cater to different types of kids. The same can be said for the neighborhood schools that did well by the USNWR standards. WJ/Whitman/Churchill/BCC/Wooton are all good schools where kids will generally thrive. One is not necessarily "better" than the other - and each have good teachers and bad teachers, and each have the druggies and stoners (just like every high school for the past fifty years), and each have the driven and the overdriven, and the underperforming. |
Anonymous
Prove it or STFU. |
Anonymous
Historically speaking, I don't think this is true. Some years Blair has a few more and, other years, RM has a few more. But they are both very close. |
Anonymous
| Regardless, it's safe to say that Blair and RM are easily the strongest high schools in the county. |
Anonymous
The weed problem is out of control at a lot of schools. Then again, kids were doing it out in the courtyard of my MCPS high school 30 years ago. |
Anonymous
What a thoughtful, insightful post. |
Anonymous
| If I could choose any one, I would choose the one up the street from the neighborhood I like to live in, where my kid's friends will be going. I would not choose based on standardized test score rankings. Bloom where you're planted. |
Anonymous
Duh...it's a hypothetical question asking if you could pick anywhere. Geez... |
Anonymous
any IB program school, I've seen enough of common core to be thoroughly unimpressed. |
Anonymous
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My child is in Catholic school here in Montgomery County.
We always planned to move locally for middle school or high school but we must make a decision within the year. I know very little about local high schools since my child is still a few years away. However, if we are picking a neighborhood for the middle school and high school, I might as well find out all I can. Why is BCC not mentioned as a "top" high school in Maryland or Montgomery County? I have no reason to select it over others but the area did seem appealing in terms of places to buy a home and I'm wondering why the high school is never mentioned with the W schools? |
Anonymous
BCC is a lovely high school with many high achieving graduates. It is not mentioned with the other so-called W schools because it has more than a handful of Black/Latinx kids, and slightly more economic diversity than the Ws. Despite the "urban" in the name, DCUM skews very heavily upper class, white, and suburban. The kinds of folks that move to all white enclaves and then look down their noses at a school like BCC. Honestly, it isn't our zoned HS, but is IS the one I would choose in OP's thought exercise. |
Anonymous
The only people who would safely say that are the few Blair and RM cheerleaders who have been having a pissing contest the past few pages. |
Anonymous
BCC isn't mentioned as a W because it starts with a B. It is wealthy and white (save for the small pocket of bussed kids from Silver Spring) and allowed to opt out of the consortiums just like the other Ws. It is treated like a W it just doesn't test as high most years. |
Anonymous
Ugh! Not Wootton or Churchill. Very low-class parents and students! My vote is for Whitman, Walter Johnson, BCC, and QO for non-magnet schools. Poolsville, Blair and RM are the best schools - for the magnet program only. If your kid is a magnet kid then they are already in the top program with the best peer group - regardless of if they are in RM, Poolsville or Blair. |
Anonymous
Their specialty programs might be, but their regular HS program/population is not. There is a huge minority population and test scores, the drug/crime scene, and level of overall school spirit is quite low! |