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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes I feel like nothing is good enough for you people. Poolesville is an excellent school and we have someone saying there’s little benefit to it over other schools.

I don’t like MCPS, but reading some of your posts, I get why they get frustrated with parents. If Poolesville didn’t exist, you’d complain about lack of challenge. It does exist and you’re saying it provides little benefit. What the heck are you looking for?[/quote]

Agh! I  did not say that Poolesville is bad. It is great school and my kids are happy there.
But first I meant that there is no much advantage to drive to it from Silver Springs... 
Second, in reality there is no much advantage on paper from graduating one school vs. another if people are looking at it as advancement to get to top colleges. Most kids even after magnets  got to UMD CP.

Advantage of Poolesville to me:
1. small school
2. great extra curricular
3. good kids
4. some good teachers (sorry not all as everywhere)
5. opportunity for kids to find their tribe 
6. good number of advanced classes

Disadvantage (big one!) - long commute. Is commute worth it? 
I would say it depends of particular kids.

By the way, everyone has right to their opinion.

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Ok, I just really disagree that there’s little advantage to one school over another. For one, I’m not surprised kids go from magnets to UMD because UMD is a great school with excellent STEM programs. I haven’t seen Poolesville’s college matriculation, but the matriculation from Blair’s magnet programs is far and away better than the non-magnet MCPS high schools. While nothing guarantees someone admission to a given school, colleges are familiar with the top high schools (including Poolesville) and excelling there is a good signal to colleges that a kid will likely succeed in college.[/quote]

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