Top 10 Schools in MoCo
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| There is great variation among privates too. The Sidwell/NCS types provide an incredibly rigorous, intellectual experience. And they don’t dilute the curriculum. At those schools, it’s not atypical for less than 10% of the class to be enrolled in the advanced math class. And for the most part a whole class is full of high achieving kids. You’d expect the percent to be higher, but they want to be able to actually work with the kids differently who are operating at a markedly higher level. |
Anonymous
Given how much they cost, one would surely hope that they offered something for the money. |
Anonymous
Exactly! |
Anonymous
Said no one ever. Unless you literally meant your kid’s ass is getting kicked at Blair, which is always a possibility. |
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What criteria is used to decide which is "top?" If it's who sends the most students to Harvard, Princeton and MIT, according to polarislist.com, Blair is tops:
Montgomery Blair High School (Silver Spring), with a total of 21 sent to those three institutions 2015-2017: Richard Montgomery High School (Rockville), with 20 students sent Winston Churchill High School (Potomac), with 13 students sent Thomas S. Wootton High School (Rockville), with 12 students sent Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda), with 11 students sent Walter Johnson High School (Bethesda), with 8 students sent Poolesville High School (Poolesville), with 5 students sent BCC (Bethesda), with 4 students sent Einstein (Kensington), with 1 student sent Gaithersburg High School (Gaithersburg), with 1 student sent Of course, what's much more important is who turns out the happiest, most well adjusted students, not just the stressed out over achievers. |
Anonymous
Ok.. but according to the list on that site, the top 10 schools in this order are: BLAIR, RM, CHURCHILL, WOOTTON. WHITMAN, WJ, POOLESVILLE, BCC, CLARKSBURG, NORTHWEST. Clarksburg and Northwest each sent 3. Not at all far off from my previous list. |
Anonymous
I honestly can't decide which criterion is more absurd for judging "school quality", percentage of students who are white or number of students admitted to Harvard, Princeton, and MIT. |
Anonymous
1. The curriculum fiasco is a catastrophe at the lower grades, but if we're talking about high school here, it's less of a problem because the curriculum was far less impacted by Erik Lang and his band of merry incompetents. 2. While I don't doubt your story about your neighbor, admission to the Blair magnet is highly competitive. No one should plan on getting in, or assume their child would have been admitted, as some others on this thread are doing. However, I'm not surprised that a young man who would be competitive for SMAC would also be competitive for an elite private. I hope they had a good experience. |
Anonymous
This list seems far more accurate than earlier attempts at least in terms of the academic opportunity available at these schools. |
Anonymous
OP's list was stupid but this one is really stupid. |
Anonymous
Incoming high school freshmen were the first guinea pig test group for 2.0. My child got through because we supplemented with workbooks and extra assignments at home. He had time to do so because his school experimented with the concept of no homework. Things did not improve much in middle school. He had about 1/4 the amount of homework than my older child because it just wasn't being assigned. High school students who just graduated could have been affected in Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2. Those were also rewritten. My child who just graduated was part of the first guinea pig students for those courses as well in which central office was literally writing the courses while school was going on. It was a disaster in which our school staff rebelled and taught the old curriculum which did not match up with the central office tests. We hired tutors to get through those courses. |
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No homework in elementary school is not an experiment. |
Anonymous
The principal said that kids needed more time to play outside and should be able to get all the practice they need at school. Reality check for our neighborhood, most families have two parents who work. That means there aren't neighbor children to have over for playdates after school. I personally think the principal made the change when parents started using homework as an example of what was wrong with the curriculum. The homework clued parents in that standards had been lowered. When parents complained using the only examples coming home, the homework, then poof - the homework stopped. This principal no longer works in MCPS by the way. |
Anonymous
I was trying to edit out the non-moco schools, and am not from here and didn't check very well. But, yes, the list is pretty close. Also, some schools like Blair have a bigger student body, so they should send more students. But I bet most of those MIT students from Blair are the magnet program. What's interesting is that across the country certain high schools send a very large group of kids to these schools each year. Are they necessarily that much better, or do they just encourage more people to apply to elites? Or do the elites look at these schools more favorably because they are a known quantity? |
Anonymous
All the more reason, no? Aftercare, then going home, then homework? Especially when the available research evidently shows that there is no academic benefit to homework in elementary school. |