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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's the cumulative effect of trying to be the absolute best at everything. Not only to have 12 APs and perfect grades, but also to be concert master in the orchestra and found a nonprofit that pairs orphans with kittens.

The amount of wealth for external coaching/training/lessons means that it's not enough to just really love singing or playing the cello or playing soccer. Because everyone else is getting extensive private coaching, there's no room for a hobbyist, which means creates an arms race. [/quote]

Are kids at Quince orchard/Poolesville/Gaithersburg high schools not interested in being the absolute best? Are they content with low effort, dodging violence, vaping, fights and theft in the hallways, joyously facing lives of mediocrity and low income earning and generational financial struggle? Because i’ll bet if they got to choose they would choose to excel and succeed!

A lot of the W graduates I know that happily opted out of the w school systems for their kids have mediocre hand to mouth existences as gig workers and assorted other careers and maybe their kids would have liked a chance to compete at a higher level.

Our kids are in the W cluster and we love seeing them surrounded by super smart kids who like to do well! It’s been joyous and healthy not agro and weird. Let’s not foist our issues with our own inadequacies onto our kids, let them surpass us!!! [/quote]

Let's not throw Poolesville in with Gaithersburg and QO.  Lots of high achieving kids and had more National Merit Semifinalists than Whitman.[/quote]

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