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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, how do BCC and Wilson compare? SWW is an application only school and if you live in the Wilson area there is no guarantee that your child would get into SWW. A better comparison would be SWW and, say, Richard Montgomery application-only IB program. I have heard from a current parent that Wilson only allows the top 5% of the grade to take "honors" classes, whereas BCC doesn't gate-keep honors classes (as far as I understand).

I can't compare Wilson b/c my kid did not go there.  The mistake was to Westland.  Deal was quite good.  BCC is so so.  No gatekeeping on honors classes as was mentioned.  Large class sizes.   We did not think moving from SWW to Wilson would be sufficient.  SWW was the concern, not Deal.  SWW was a disappointment.  Teachers were not the high caliber we had expected with application school.  Higher level Spanish teacher was not only poor Spanish teacher but also showed poor judgement on several issues.  We should have tried to work around the system but we were fairly upset by the displays of threats of class punishments, lack of updating grades, disorganization etc.  Not sure why they want to expand that school without fixing the problems first.  [/quote]

I'm a little confused -- you say "BCC is so-so" and yet your child seems to have gone to SWW.  On what do you base your comments about BCC?  Is that what you've heard or based on personal experience with your child their?  When you say BCC is so-so, if you had a kid there, what program did your child follow (full IB, certificate IB, AP classes only….)?  What was disappointing about BCC -- just the large class size?  (I agree that large class size is a problem in MoCo, both at the MS and HS level.  My MoCo MS kid has some classes with 35 kids, which is insane.  We are fortunate that DC#1 is the type of kid who can perform well despite this, but DC#2 not so much….)

Also, can you elaborate on why Westland was such a mistake?  It has traditionally been thought of as the "weak link" in the cluster, but it would be helpful to have specifics. [/quote]

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