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[quote=Anonymous]I think folks are focused on HS because that's what OP stressed, but just a reminder that OP has a toddler, which means they need will attend school for 9 years before HS.

On the ES level, the so-called W-schools are even more segregated than at the HS level and concerns about "pressure cooker" environments can manifest earlier. In very high needs schools (none of which are IB for QO or RM), this is also the age when serious behaviors based on trauma/poverty can begin to manifest.

At the HS level, almost any MCPS HS is going to have strong cohorts, and any MCPS HS is going to have bad influences. The "shape" of those bad influences might look different, but they exist everywhere.

I'd argue that MS is the weakest link throughout MCPS, and maybe the place where the "cohort" argument is the most salient -- the "honors for all" approach means that all of the classes are heterogeneous even as kids are really starting to decide whether or not they are going to try at school.

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