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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every year the W schools boosters cannot wait for the USNews rankings to come out to boast about how their schools rank higher than Blair. 
They know they cannot compete and beat Blair on the field...but on paper, oh yeah [/quote]

Blair envy is very strong with that group.[/quote]

there is no such things as Blair envy from the group you think has envy. If they wanted to send their kids to Blair they could have traded the cheapest starter home zoned for BCC and bought one of the nicest homes in the entire Blair zone. There is no exclusivity to the cheapest area in close in Montgomery County and one of the things that drags blair down is the copious amounts of low income housing zoned for it.  People take less home not to go to Blair, the vast majority of people zoned for Blair can't afford nicer areas of the county or were willing to compromise their children's school for a nicer house.

The people with Blair envy are fellow DCC residents with worse options. To be honest most people not in a consortium paid 7 figures specifically not to go to school like Blair. Maybe we have different definitions of envy [/quote]

Not really You're just misinformed. There are many tigers whose cubs didn't make the cut and suffer from this Blair envy. They typically live in Western Montgomery county in areas like Potomac. They love to complain about changes to the selection process or where the magnet is geographically located. The term sour grapes comes to mind.[/quote]

Don't the sour grapes make wine?

Love it!  Notice how the magnet parents say "Blair" and not "Blair SMACS"?

I don't disagree that Blair SMACs has smart kids, right now.  The irony is that the Blair magnet cherry-picked most of the "W" kids to obtain the competition results in the first place.  ES and MS magnets are both lottery now.  Hopefully the board will be half swapped out this September and the Magnet will return to a competitive admissions process again?  My guess is that once the effect of the lottery starts feeding into HS admission decisions (starting with the freshman class of 2023), whatever "Blair envy" remains will evaporate pretty quickly?

SMACS is an island and world unto itself.  There's no law that states it has to remain at Blair.  It could always be relocated to help alleviate the overcrowding and reduce program costs?  Pride comes before the fall.[/quote]

Oh no that is incorrect. It isn't an island at all. These kids take over 50% of their classes with the regular school population. These programs are fully integrated into the school. [/quote]

The other thing the poster fails to grasp is the vast majority of kids in SMCS are from the DCC. This is also true of TPMS. There are a few W kids but things would be the same without them.[/quote]

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