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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The name calling makes me feel that there may be some truth to the criticism about Blair.  I don't know about white flight from Silver Sparing and Takoma Park but have seen the [i]statistics on the web that seem to indicate that is true.  [/i]I saw the piece Dan Reed wrote in the Washington Post as well.  MCPS data also seems to show white flight from the system.  The white flight is real, no?[/quote]

Statistics?  Sigh. Check out the recent Bethesda Magazine table on 2013 college applications and acceptances (from which you can infer acceptance rates) from top MoCo publics.  Here: http://bethesdamagazine.com/College_Chart.pdf.

Blair does as well with acceptances to very top universities, and in many cases it does better, than the W schools. (My kid got into a USNWR top 5 from Blair, and DC knows the other Blair kids accepted to that university, so I can vouch for the acceptance figure shown for that particular university.)

Honestly, the part I've bolded is laughable. You just wave your hand and imply you have actual statistics. Well, put up or shut up. Meanwhile, for the saner readers, the college table and the PP who suggested looking at property values both provide some quantifiable evidence that Blair, the magnet, CAP--and even Silver Spring writ large--are doing very well, thank you.

This is my first post here today. I agree with the PP who said there's a sort of peverse fascination to this thread. It's sort of like watching a train wreck and wondering what's going on (or not going on) in the Poolesville booster's mind. There are lots of great schools in MoCo, really! And just because your school is great doesn't mean you have to cut down every other MoCo school. I do think there's a weird racial aspect to the whole White Flight to Poolesville rant. Frankly, we're white, and we wouldn't touch all-white Poolesville with a ten-foot pole.

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