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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's just about wanting to avoid schools where the primary focus is on getting kids up to grade level or in a position to graduate even if never at grade level. The peer groups at the W schools are academically stronger and encourage each other to excel.  [/quote]

+1 this has been our experience.    Add WJ to your list OP.    Large ranges of homes, townhomes, condos, and apartment in zone.

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My kids are both Blair graduates and had zero classes where the "primary focus (was) on getting kids up to grade level or in a position to graduate even if never at grade level."  Both of my kids attended T30 colleges and are highly successful, independent adults now at 25 and 22.[/quote]

DP and yeah, this example is yet another of people not understanding that there are sizable cohorts of above grade level kids at every single high school in MCPS.  Smart kids will have peer groups.  They're smaller at some schools than others, and variations in income level, but let's stop mistaking parental income for children's intelligence.[/quote]

and at a HS of 3K students there's a fairly large high achieving cohort [/quote]

And also a very large cohort of low achieving kids, up to no good kids, mad at the world kids. What we are talking about is the ratios of said cohorts between the different schools. I would wager there are more kids who are functionally illiterate at Blair than Magnet kids. And while there is some good and bad reasons for that related to economic realities and ESOL. Why not go somewhere where the good kid cohort is the vast majority opposed to a subgroup if you have the means . I am sure there are a few Blair families that could have gotten into a starter home IB for Whitman but every single family at Whitman could have sent their kids to Blair if they wanted to and gotten one of the nicest homes in the area in the process, 2mil goes a looooooong way in the east county. You will never convince me that concentration of high achievers in the West don't know a little bit more about what it takes to achieve than the concentration of average to low achieving families that are naturally IB in the east. [/quote]

You’re getting a lot of heat for this post but I understand the point. Many schools have a cohort of kids on track to be successful. But the question is what’s the dominant culture of the school. If you have a kid who could go a variety of different directions then that is an important question.[/quote]

No, you’re not getting it, either.  You and PP, who clearly have zero experience with Blair/Einstein/Northwood/etc. think you know what these schools are like.  You don’t.  You’re assuming all kinds of things about these schools and the kids who attend them (and the families raising them) without actually knowing them.  [/quote]

Two 4s and a 3 on great schools :lol:  I’m sure they are great for the group of kids who get pushed though if one can just ignore copious amounts kids failing through the crack or perform at grade level. Maybe the Middle class families have more in common with the W parents after all, both pretend that segment of society doesn’t exist but the DCC parents are just better at it because they can do it living next to them while their kids walk in the same halls.  The W families just never have to see them.  [/quote]

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