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[quote=Anonymous]I think I said this before but the school culture matters. Whitman, Churchill, Wootton, and B-CC have a culture of academic achievement that exists among a large portion of its student body. WJ has it as well but to a lesser extent. Now we can argue why that is but it is true. Poolesville and RM have it because of the magnet programs. Blair's magnet students have it to the 10th degree. My point throughout the thread has been that if you take the IB program out, RM becomes a better-than-average school. It is probably better than 20 of the schools in MoCo but is not better than the schools above. Think about it, if a kid grows up in a household where one of the parents is a scientist at NIH and the other parent is an attorney, that kid, who probably attends WJ, is likely to have a different perspective than a kid whose parents are immigrants working two jobs and whose focus is not that their kid attends the same elite undergraduate and graduate schools as will be the focus of the WJ kid's parents. Maybe at WJ or Wootton you have a few of the kids whose parents never attended college but at RM you have a larger percentage of the student body that fits that profile.

I am not saying that the kid who fits that profile will not be academically successful, I am saying that the kid will find a better peer group that will drive academic achievement at Whitman than at RM (w/o the IB).

Ideally, I think it is important to have a diverse economic environment where all classes are represented. [/quote]

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