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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are upper/middle class as are most of our friends. Our kids are or were at Einstein. All our kids did great, as expected, and are at college and grad school, as expected.  What in hell is that troll above talking about?

Is there a way to get trolls off the forum?[/quote]

You’re oblivious, Einstein is about 2/3 poor according to (at a glance) with 65.6% of kids either receiving FARMs or having got it in the past. Everyone acknowledges that concentrations of poverty are a problem so I am not sure how Einstein parents act like it isn’t there. I guess they do a good job putting the middle class white kids in a bubble where they are sheltered form the the rest of the school. Then the parents get to act like the bottom of the county graduation rates and test scores aren’t the few middle class white kids at the school so they don’t matter.  Your kid made it out so I guess the facts that

1200 of 1800 kids at the school hover around the poverty line. 
1/5 wont graduate 
Almost 4/5 who do finish don’t qualify for the Maryland university system
Test scores among the worst in the county all don’t matter

It is all here, your anecdotal rose colored BS isn’t reflective of the school
[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04789.pdf[/url][/quote]

[b]It's cute how you think your ability to cite stats you looked up online is somehow more significant than the actual life experiences of families who live in the community and attend the school.[/b] Yes, there are families living in poverty; nobody is disputing that. But there are great teachers, administrators, and programs there too, and lots of kids are thriving there. [/quote]

I am not the PP and have no dog in this fight, but it seems you are being totally irrational here.

Data pointing to huge problem for majority of kids in one high school is a hard cold fact. Opinions of families living in HS are simply opinions. [b]In any world, facts are far more significant than opinion.[/b] Now if you can argue that facts are not indeed facts then it will be different situation.

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I don't know anything about Einstein to add much here, but I suspect problem is not the school. If you simply swap all kids between Whitman and Einstein without changing teachers, I am sure that collective results will be swapped as well. It's SES level which makes the most difference. [/quote]

I never said facts don't matter. I acknowledged the truth about the poverty in the school. It's just that the at-a-glance reports don't give the whole picture. People describing real life experiences are not simply stating opinions; they are factually providing information about the school that can't be gleaned from the reports. That is usually what people asking questions about schools are seeking.[/quote]

No dog in the fight but the Einstein boosters coming to a thread about other schools seem to be more troll worthy than someone saying they don’t buy what they are selling.  Also these boosters also seem to be the ones who get the most giddy about the prospects of being zoned away from their beloved school to Woodward. Can’t count how many of them deliriously speculate about the equality boost they would recieve. That is telling what they really think of that school[/quote]

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