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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BCC is a very good school, but the least strong, I feel, of the so-called W schools. It's an [b]honorary W school[/b]. My second kid goes there. My first kid went to WJ because he was part of a special program. WJ has more rigorous instruction with better teachers (overall, of course, there are exceptions). As PP explained, Bethesda has a high mean HHI, but a lot of its wealthy families send their kids to privates, and the rest ends up at the public school. On my street of 1.5M+ houses, about two thirds of the families send their kids to privates. Before the pandemic, it was the reverse.

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Lol. Only because it is located in same-named city as Whitman and WJ. [/quote]

Hence the term honorary. Although to be entirely fair, BCC is much more rigorous and studious than the non-magnet Blair, Poolesville, and Rockville, Einstein, Wheaton, etc. So the description is apt. Wootton is another W that's a little weaker than the three big ones: Whitman, WJ and Winston Churchill.[/quote]

I'm so impressed to hear that you've taught at, parented through, _and_ attended all of these schools, along with studying all of their data and their demographics.  You must be even more amazing than a BCC kid.[/quote]

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