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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Morons, There are million homes in Anacostia. You can try to make yourselves feel good all you like but the reality is that outside of the IB program, RM is just an average school for all the same reasons that many other school in the county are average. With the IB program, RM's average scores are the same or inferior to the 4 Ws. Without the IB, the scores are weak. Again, I am only trying the answer OP's question. To be honest, I would rather attend an average MCPS than a stellar school in most other school districts.[/quote]
In truth, RM's mean test scores (excluding the magnet kids) are weaker than the Ws because it's zoned to include Twinbrook ES, which contains a large area east of 355 that's fairly poor.  If you stuck Twinbook ES into the Wootton or Churchill clusters, it would instantly look about the same demographically as RM does now. If you think that the rest of RM looks anything like Anacostia, you haven't spent much time in Anacostia.  Zones like Ritchie Park are actually wealthier than some of the nearby zones in Wootton.

Wootton and Churchill are basically white/asian, upper class bubbles due to the fact that there are few poor or multifamily pockets zoned into them, whereas RM at the high school level is very diverse, with very wealthy and very poor areas both zoned in.  Much of RM costs more per square foot to live in than Wootton and Churchill though.[/quote]

You need help. The point being made with Anacostia is that jts because a neighborhood has million dollar homes does not mean that it has great schools.

At the end of the day, if you ask most people whether they would pick Bethesda/Whitman or Potomac/Wootton over Rockville/RM, they would. [/quote]

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