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[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]

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. 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]

You consider 2/3 in poverty, 4/5 not qualifying for college and 20% not graduating as thriving? What you clearly mean is the few white kids like yours are thriving because their parents find a way. Not the same thing as a good school[/quote]

Not only is the “at a glance” report your only source of information; you are also misreading it. Show me the line where it says “not qualifying for college.” There is a statistic on meeting University of Maryland entrance requirements, and yes Einstein’s is 22%. For comparison, BCC’s is less than 50% and Whitman’s is 57%. So yeah, the school is mostly nonwhite and lots of kids’ parents don’t make much money, yet every year they graduate 100 or so kids who are highly qualified for college, compared with the 250 kids highly qualified for college from Whitman — the wealthiest and whitest high school in the county. That actually makes Einstein look pretty good.

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