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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good morning OP.  The answer to your question is NO.  There are plenty of wonderful schools and communities outside of the W’s.  There are plenty of engaged families whose kid are thriving and going on to be successful who go to schools outside of the W’s.  There are plenty of highly capable teachers outside of the W’s.

The zones outside the W’s are more diverse both racially and socioeconomically.  That’s it.  [/quote]

Children of affluent educated people perform well and that's why the perception is that the W schools are the "best."  OP, the fact is that your children will do as well at Richard Montgomery or Quince Orchard (or Blair or Einstein) as they would at Whitman or Wooton.[/quote]

This is only partially true. When the majority of the student body performs at a lower level the teachers and administrators supports and expectations follow. The same is true when the majority of the student body is higher achieving. The PTA matters, too.  I can not enumerate the extras provided by a strong PTA. [b]Our W provides college prep seminars for both parents and students on a regular basis. Paid college advisors are clamoring to hold free sessions at our school because they understand that enough of our parents will follow up with paid services. You will not get that in the poorly perfor.ing schools. [/b]Furthermore,  our strong parental presence keeps pressure on administrators to retain teachers who go above and beyond in the classroom.

Those who would have you believe it is as simple as what happens at home must be unaware of what they are missing.[/quote]
Huh??
My non-W school has that and I'm pretty sure most, if not all MCPS school, provides that.[/quote]

DP - exactly, because NO high school in MCPS would be considered "poorly performing" in any reasonable definition of the term.  It's comical, to the point of being pathetic, that people don't understand that.  That speaks volumes about their lack of perspective.[/quote]

Test scores look pretty bad to me[/quote]

Lol - you don't understand how mean scores work, do you?  Or that "test scores" on their own, especially when averaged, are a poor metric of school quality.

But please, keep telling me how my kids and I are the dumb ones.[/quote]

You are not very persuasive. When less than 50% of kids are considered proficient in many schools that doesn't strike me as high performing. [/quote]

You have no interest in changing your mind, which is fine.  People are allowed to remain ignorant.  Not everyone wants their kids in a 100% "high performing" environment, often with very good reasons.[/quote]

I don't know in what universe a school like Kennedy, where less than 10% of students were proficient in math and 40% are proficient in ELA, would not be considered "poorly performing". I think those kids deserve better.[/quote]

They really do. If only you could pick the family you're born into.[/quote]

The question of who is at fault is complicated, but to say Kennedy is not poorly performing is preposterous. Maybe don't be so rude to people who are just stating facts.[/quote]

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