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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS posters only talk about TJ.  MCPS spreads out its smart kids to other magnets, not just to Blair, but FCPS posters still only look at Blair.  That is why you are called idiots.   It's almost like you treat the other schools as the ugly stepchildren. [/quote]

Actually: we look at Blair because MCPS keeps saying that Blair has better STEM. But comparing a school that has 100 magnet kids vs. a school with 423 magnet kids is foolhardy at best. And that somehow, having the #4 school in the country isn't as good as having Blair and RM and Poolesville.

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Take a look at the total numbers of each district, not just TJ.  There are a few non magnet MCPS HS that are also on the list in that article OP posted - Wootton, Churchill. Whitman, and RM (another non whole school magnet)..  but no other FCPS HS. The next FCPS HS on the polaris list is Langley at 6.

Go to the polaris website. Add up all numbers for the HS and get the proportional rate.  That is a much better comparison. I think what you will find is that, based on the polaris list, the proportionally numbers between the two districts are fairly close.
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They are fairly close. When this was brought up though, then MCPS throught out that Blair was somehow better than TJ. Which is great, but not true and not provable. And actually, they crazy thing is that even though they are close and the top schools send a huge number of kids to HYPS, the MCPS people were like: we have fewer kids! Our FARMS rate is higher!

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WW and TW have higher demographics than a lot of other places in the area. Some other poster mentioned it: but it's like MCPS just wants to argue whoever is richer. Which is why the US News Rankings have been posted... over and over again. [/quote]

Yet it is VA that has the thread not MD...who wants to argue?[/quote]

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