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[quote=Anonymous][quote=brightwood][/quote]Although I don’t love it, I feel the same. The kids will still be at a W school and my property value remains the same. 
It’s a win for us.[/quote]

This "W" school thing is such BS. I was at a non-W MCPS high school and I have a fantastic career and multiple gradate degrees. I have friends who went to "W" schools and are no more successful than I am, many less successful. Even the "worst" high school in Montgomery County is better than 99% of the schools around this country. People need to chill out. Your kids will be just fine at Crown. There are kids at RM and Rockville and Gaithersburg who will go on to be doctors, lawyer, and scientists. People need to get over themselves. [/quote]

My spouse went to one of the high schools that many people on this board declare as one of the worst in the county.  And we've lived in areas that feed into the not so great schools.  As well as know people who have worked in multiple schools and can compare how well the students at the different schools know the actual content for the same course.

Based on what we've seen and heard, schools in the county are not the same.  My spouse always talks about how it was a shock to go to college and see how they were far behind the rest of their classmates.  And they were considered pretty advanced at their high school.  The same goes for some of the kids we've seen in our previous neighbhorhoods.  They studied all the time, played a string instrument, got straight As in all of their AP classes.  You could easily plug them into any W school.  But they couldn't pass any of the standardized tests and didn't go the traditional route after high school.  I see it as the school and school system failing those students because the students and their families made every effort in their academics.

Yeah we do know of some cases of students who come out and do just as well or better than other people that went to a W school.  But some of those people do say that they're the exception.

This is why having our kids go to a W school was a big deal to our family.  So that they could have a better education and opportunity then we did.

With all that being said, I don't think Crown will be bad school and I'm not totally against sending my kids there.

We did pay the premium to live where we do.  When we were looking, it was about 50k more than an equivalent home in the New Mark Commons area and about 100k more than a home in a neighborhood a little bit further down Darnestown Road near where that new park is.  While disappointed, the home values aren't that big of a factor for me.

The major factor for me is that my kids would be a small handful of students split from their elementary school classmates.  As well as being designated in a walk zone that requires a 45 minute walk along and crossing busy commuter routes.[/quote]

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