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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "W" schools are highly sought after.  If you can go there, I'd do it.  [/quote]

W school parents are afraid of POC and think that poverty is contagious.[/quote]

Its not necessarily POC, but income.  They don't want their kids going to school with their housekeepers kids.[/quote]

Why not. A mix of kids is ultimately beneficial to everyone.
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DP.  My kids go to RM. They like it there, and we purposefully chose RM cluster even though we could've easily afforded in a W cluster. We looked at well over 20 houses all over the western side of MoCo, from Kensington to North Potomac, and every cluster in between.  We ultimately settled on the RM cluster because 1. we wanted our kids to have the opportunity to be in the IB program if they so chose to  2. we moved from  a wealthy area, and I didn't want my kids surrounded by only wealthy kids.  We saw the issues with that, too.

Having stated that, it is also important to have more like-minded peer groups in the school, not just because your kid might succumb to peer pressure, but because having like minded peers helps keep you motivated without necessarily being uber competitive.   There are kids at RM who don't care about school, but by and large, in HS, you can start to avoid those kids when you take challenging classes because those kids tend to not want challenging classes.  My kids have found a good peer group who are above average (AP classes) to high achieving (IB program).  They are very happy there.

But to ^PPs point, you don't know whether your kid will be a high achiever, above average, or just a middling student right now. So, yes, it is good to have a wide variety of peer groups in the school.[/quote]

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