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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High performing students in any school - W or ganglandia- will end up in mostly AP classes.  You could be in W or QO or Watkins Mill HS and not take AP classes and the chances would be that you were mediocre or below. There is a reason that colleges look for mostly A's in the hardest courses that your school offers. Hardest classes currently are either AP or IB. [/quote]

The AP courses at these schools are not at the same level.  Look at the test results (just a selection of schools):

2017 AP Pass Rates (3 or above):
Kennedy - 36.2
Watkins Mill - 34.1
Rockville - 54.9
QO - 57.2
Einstein - 61.9
Clarksburg - 69.1
RM - 79.9
B-CC - 80.4
Churchill - 85.3
Blair - 86.3
WJ - 87.1
Poolesville - 87.7
Whitman - 88.2
Wootton - 89.2

These pass rates also don't show the wide disparity between schools on scores between 3 and 5.  The schools at the low end do not provide the same quality of education.
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Do they not provide the same level of education, or they educating students from differing backgrounds with different starting points?  A kid from a two lawyer family in Whitman is (on the whole) going to be exposed to a lot more in terms of education at home than the kid of a first generation parent (who may not speak English as a first language) working a blue collar job.

Getting the latter kid caught up to the point of getting a 3 may take a better education than getting the Whitman kid a 5.[/quote]
+1 test scores are usually a reflection of SES, and that ranking shows it, for the most part.

That said, my Asian American kids will do fine at RM.[/quote]

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