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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP the silver spring schools are rubbish. please don't move there because you feel poor compared to some families in Bethesda.

We were not rich and our kids did fine at Whitman. Go for the academically strongest place you can find. Whitman, BCC, Churchill.  The second 2 of these will be more diverse, if that matters to you.[/quote]

How can you know that the SS schools are rubbish?  I don't have a dog in this fight, but am considering a MoCo move, and I had the impression that Blair, at least (which is TKPK not SS, I guess) had offerings and outcomes as good as the W/BCC schools.    [/quote]

Blair's college outcomes are a lot better than any W according to the data published by Bethesda Beat.

Also, there was that document that leaked a few years ago that showed the average SAT scores by demographic cohort for each HS was very interesting.[/quote]

Wouldn't that just reflect that Blair has a competitive magnet program whereas the other schools do not?[/quote]

And the Ws have their share of rich students.  Maybe….. they’re all good?[/quote]

No. There are plenty of mediocre rich kids. But magnet kids are selected for academics. [/quote]

Of course, but the demographic population serving the W’s is richer (with fewer poor students), and that trends toward better academic performance.  That gives them an edge.  I’d be skeptical that demographically similar students at any of these schools perform that differently.[/quote]

Depends on the distractions, poor kids have poor problems they can’t magically make go away with money. Those can infect an environment. Or is all the research stating that when FARM exceeds 30% that school quality and safety declines precipitously? If all the poor kids concentrated in the DCC don’t affect the middle class kids why is everyone angling so hard to ship them away?  [/quote]

This is so very true. This happened at [b]Westbrook Elementary[/b] this year. Folks closed their eyes to it completely because it is a really, really tough conversation. [b]The school received children from overcrowded schools[/b] and a big percentage is children in FARMS. The challenges are different and the realities too. The sister school that is traditionally supported at Westbrook is Viers Mill. Now they have to really face that there a big part of their population who have these challenges and the school changed. Is it good or bad? Neither. It is just a reality that needs to be addressed. [/quote]
 
Can you explain what is meant by the bolded? In MCPS, kids are not transferred from one school to the other just because of overcrowding.

Are you talking about the school population changing because of a boundary change? That boundary change moved kids from an “overcrowded school” - wealthy neighboring Somerset ES  - mostly wealthy single family homes in Somerset and from apartment buildings in Friendship Heights, and from a very small segment of apartments off of Bradley Boulevard and Hillandale.  Much of that is still very wealthy.

The FARMS rate went from 1.2% to 5.5%, which is still an extremely low rate. An increase of 5% FARMS represents approximately 30 more poor kids across 5 grades.  Are you really saying 6 more poor kids per grade (probs 3 or fewer per class) “infects the environment” as you support the PP saying when she refers to a FARMS rate of 30%, which is much higher than Westbrook’s 5%.

Why are you bringing Viers Mills ES into problems you perceive at Westbrook? No children were transferred from Viers Mills ES to Westbrook ES. The fact that Westbrook has chosen Viers Mills as a “sister school” means that wealthy parents at Westbrook ES support Viers Mills in charitable ways - like having a coat drive.

Your lack of knowledge about Westbrook makes me wonder if you are really a parent there and can legitimately speak to the presence, absence or need for “tough conversations”. [/quote]

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