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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m concerned that these districts have very different approaches to COVID. MCPS has an increasing number of schools that have gone virtual. It seems (now… not a month ago) that DCPS is leaning more toward staying open. I live in MoCo and teach in DC. I generally think of MCPS schools as better, but I hate virtual learning. [/quote]

From the educators perspective, would you say MCPS is better across the board? What about Einstein or Blair compared to Wilson or somewhere like DCI? I feel like often DCUM treats MoCo as synonymous with western MoCo (Bethesda, CC, etc). But what about the other parts of close in MCPS?[/quote]

Part of the problem is ranks like Great schools sort of just report on the SES mix of a school's kids compared locally and one has to know the nuances to understand.  A 10 most often means very and completely rich and a 1 mean almost completely poor.

That said you can have a middle score like an Einstein that is punished because is it so much poorer than its peers to the west that it is compared to but for the most part the kids are not very poor or very rich. Mostly just lower middle and middle class kids. Then another lower scoring school like blair is a mix of a few affluent kids (local and bussed in) and lots of poor kids. While similar rankings they will have different experiences. Einstein is smaller with less differentiation where Blair is very much the sheltered kids and the rest of the school creating an us vs them dynamic. Even when the kids don't manifest it many of the parents have track insecurities. Got to be on enrichment/magnet track or slide back to the unwashed masses. They rarely use those words (on the record) but the pressure to be above the cut line comes from the fear of the general population and it can be insufferable with some parents. A similar anxiety happens in DC for affluent parents who live in undesirable school zones. They worry about enrichment but that is because they see the masses who are not enriched.

Western MoCo provides a stress free track for those who can pay for it with almost no need for differentiation as most of the kids 90%+ are on college track with the expectation that they will go and can afford it.  That isn't close to the reality for most DC and eastern MoCO schools. Even Wilson only recently started graduating a respectable % of it's students and it is unclear if that was students doing better or DC just lowering the bar like it did in the lower ward HS[/quote]

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