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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ive said this here before but Ill say it again. I work in the county and the people at the tippy top are not secretive about their feelings about the W schools. The goal is to narrow the achievement gap, and focusing on enrichment or class size or resources or magnet access in the W schools is inconsistent with that goal. They view it as a moral imperative to level the playing field, and whether or not you agree, there are limited resources. So yes, the W schools are going to remain an afterthought and they're going to let parents do the enriching. Honestly, how could anyone look at the MCPS website and not see this mandate so clearly? It's been this way for YEARS. And by the way, they're also not sending the superstar principals the W schools way either. The good ones in the Ws tend to move up quickly. There are one or two exceptions, but at the high school level only. [b]That's why you see a lot of teacher turnover in the W schools too--lack of good leadership.[/quote]
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It makes you wonder why people pay extra for the privilege of sending their kids to such under-resourced schools with second-rate staff, doesn't it?[/quote]
It's a false narrative that people move to the Ws for schools. They move to the Ws because, generally speaking, they are the districts with easier commutes, safety (as compared to the eastern side of the county where commutes are similar), and proximity to amenities. That is primarily what drives the property value, not the schools. Poolesville has academic performance that's on par with the Ws, and the property value doesn't have any bump. Crown Farm is zoned for a district many people thing is bad and they're having no problem selling $1.5M homes right now. Dufief is zoned for Wootton, yet the outdated homes there can't sell for much.

This notion that there's some huge "W" premium on property values is a mostly a myth.[/quote]

Agree with you about the principal quality. It is the only way to explain leaving Joan Benz in place for so long. Disagree with you about why people move to a "w" district. That is the number one reason we choose to move to the Churchill area. Did not want to have to worry about potentially having to come up with $80,000 a year for two private school tuition's. Once kids are done with school, there is no reason to stay in the area. Commute and safety were not even close to the reasons we chose to move here. Jobs can change. Not sure why everyone keeps saying so many kids are moving to private schools. In certain areas, like River falls, lots of kids do go to catholic schools. This has been the case for awhile. There are only a limited number of spots for private school so its not like if 1,000 kids wanted to go private there would be spots for them. [/quote]

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