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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High performing students in any school - W or ganglandia- will end up in mostly AP classes.  You could be in W or QO or Watkins Mill HS and not take AP classes and the chances would be that you were mediocre or below. There is a reason that colleges look for mostly A's in the hardest courses that your school offers. Hardest classes currently are either AP or IB. [/quote]

The AP courses at these schools are not at the same level.  Look at the test results (just a selection of schools):

2017 AP Pass Rates (3 or above):
Kennedy - 36.2
Watkins Mill - 34.1
Rockville - 54.9
QO - 57.2
Einstein - 61.9
Clarksburg - 69.1
RM - 79.9
B-CC - 80.4
Churchill - 85.3
Blair - 86.3
WJ - 87.1
Poolesville - 87.7
Whitman - 88.2
Wootton - 89.2

These pass rates also don't show the wide disparity between schools on scores between 3 and 5.  The schools at the low end do not provide the same quality of education.
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Thanks for posting this information about AP results [/quote]

Oh dear me. What does it prove?  That there are more students in Wootton taking AP courses than Watkins Mill? Duh!   That is given,

If 3/10 students in WM take APs and 8/10 students in Wootton take APs is that surprising? No.

What is surprising is that anyone would think that the quality of education that the 3 students in WM in the AP classes received  is less than that the 8 students receive in Wootton. [/quote]

Those stats are for rates of passing APs, not taking them.[/quote]

Yeah, so it becomes a proxy for the demographic profile of the school, just like most if not all test scores, and not a measure of the relative quality of the schools.[/quote]

Peer group is the number one relative quality of a school. And that plays out pretty consistency across most statistics and measurables. Yes that does bode well for the poor kids but if we are really being honest they are going to fail at a much higher rate anyway. Which once again goes back to Peer group being the main measure of quality.

it isn't how new the paint is. And teacher and leadership quality only moves the needle so far. [/quote]

does not bode well [/quote]

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