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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd go for B-CC in a heartbeat over Einstein.  Let's not beat around the bush, it's just an [b]academically stronger peer group and the chances are lower than your kid will fall in with a crowd that places a low priority on education.  [/b]And it's not like B-CC is without diversity, it's just that the overall tone is more conducive to getting a good education.

I recall seeing some of Einstein's SAT scores rising a few years ago.  At first I was impressed, but when I did some digging I learned that the percentage of students bothering to take the SATs was surprisingly low.  It made me think there is a big cohort there that is not academically motivated.

Of course, most people who live in SS are going to say good things about Blair and Einstein, but WJ and B-CC are worth stretching for, IMO.  [/quote]

I hear this warning a lot on this board, and it always strikes me as odd, because I don't think it is very usual for a high-performing teenager who hangs out with similar-interest peers to "fall in with" a bad crowd.  I don't see it happening among my group of friends and family.  I live in Silver Spring 20910 and I know many teens at Blair and Einstein who are busy and engaged and working, and participating in school and in their community.  Without exception, they are all working towards attending, or currently attending good colleges and universities.

I will say, however, that at Whitman HS, my niece definitely fell in with the wrong crowd.  She became addicted to drugs and alcohol and my brother has had a heck of a time getting treatment for her and generally trying to steer her in a different direction.[/quote]

This.  I attended a HS (in another state) that people on this board would probably consider "unsafe."  Once, a kid threw a trash can at a teacher.  The guys I knew didn't use the bathroom at school because they might get jumped (one kid I knew got his arm broken).  We would joke once the weather started getting warmer and the fights at lunchtime more frequent that spring must be here.  But it just is what it is.  It doesn't take your focus away from learning.  I was actually a pretty sheltered kid.  My friends were academics like me who for the most part were left alone.  The major upside of a school like that is that, academically, you're a much bigger fish in a small pond.  All those "high performing" kids you want your kid to hang out with and lift him up, they're also major competition for college spots.  I was at the top of my class in high school, but had I gone to a BCC-like school, I may have been a C student, for all I know.  Plus, you know what rich kids have much easier access to?  Drugs.  The worst I ever did in high school was a little pot.  No one I knew was doing anything harder, which was certainly not the case at nearby private schools, for instance.[/quote]

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