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These are fairly objection quantitative and qualitative ways to judge a school. Besides special magnet or arts programs embedded in a host school.  It is not difficult to see why MoCo planners put special programs in [b]far off schools [/b]in order to bolster real estate there and test scores at the school.

Our neighborhood has lots of african americans, but they all go to DC private schools and do very well. They don't trust MCPS. [/quote]

They're not far off schools for those of us who live near them.[/quote]

Right. [b]But for these people, the center of the world is the District/Potomac/Bethesda.[/b] Everything is determined in relation to those places. [/quote]

And this is why I didn't want my kids to go to schools in those areas. Too many self-absorbed, righteous, and snobby people. I didn't want my kids to be influenced or surrounded by those types of people.

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And yet here you are posting on a thread about "W schools," which suggests that you have more than a passing interest in how those schools are perceived and characterized.  How big is that chip on your shoulder?[/quote]

No chip here. Just responding to folks like the PP who spreads misinformation about "far off schools" and the pervasive but incorrect assumption that special programs must be placed in those schools to bolster their test scores.  [/quote]

Clearly the magnets at Poolesville, RM and Blair bolster the test scores at those schools.  Whether they "had to be placed" in those schools is a different question. [/quote]

There was a post here a few weeks back that crunched the actual numbers for this. The results weren't that significant. For example, at Blair there are 100 juniors in the magnet of which 80 are from out of boundary and around 40% of those students are white. This boosted the SAT average from 1296 to 1326 within that cohort.  Point being even without the magnet kids that cohort still outperforms any W.[/quote]

That was just some moron making up numbers, no one gives them any weight.

Also no one is arguing that the 80 best students shipped in from a million person county won’t give test scores a bump. What you are arguing is that if you consitrict the sample pool to 20 or so students out of the 3000 (person control group that is blair) using fictitious criteria, you can get an average score that is comparable to the full school multi-thousand person sample of the stronger high schools. Even assuming that is true, who wouldn’t just send their kids to a school where all of the kids are competitive compared to the thousands you write off at Blair and don’t include in your averages. The high peer group argument is fine and dandy but most people don’t think especially favorably to the Blair peer group. Once again if W parents wanted their kid part of that, they would have bought one of the nicest homes IB to Blair as it a fairly cheep place to live.

When I look at Blair’s scores and graduation rates I see an average score towards the bottom of county and then when I factor in that those scores are despite those power students shipped in, well that paints a different picture.

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