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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BCC has major problems; anyone who denies this is understandably defending the school their kids go to. The kids roam around aimlessly, there’s no lunchroom, and it seems like it’s basically an IB degree mill for parents who enrich heavily at home and a four year purgatory for those who don’t. The kids we’ve met fall into these categories as well; the rich, enrichment focused parents in east Bethesda push their kids hard and they do well, and then there’s a big divide to a lot very underwhelming, poor discipline kids. Pot has become a huge problem, too, but we can’t talk about that because marijuana is good now, or something. I’d put BCC below WJ and WC at this point.[/quote]

You betray your lack of real knowledge about BCC when you say, “there’s no lunchroom” like it’s some kind of failing. Yes, there’s no lunch room but kids and parents prefer it that way. No one is eating lunch at 10:30 am as was necessary when lunch in the lunchroom was scheduled for all. BCC has one lunch period for all teachers and students. This is a good thing. You can see your friends no matter what grade. You can eat lunch off campus or anywhere in the school - even outside on nice days. You can visit teachers and get extra help. You can just eat lunch in a teacher’s room, which is actually how some students make friends.  You can go to club meetings or work on class projects.  “No lunch room” is actually fine - more than fine - great.

BTW, as a parent who sent a kid to Eastern Magnet and Takoma Park Magnet, I’m dying of laughter that you think “East Bethesda” parents (who aren’t even the wealthiest neighborhood at BCC) are pushing their kids with enrichment.  When I sent my kids to middle school magnets, most of my Bethesda Chevy Chase parent friends said they would never consider it.  Wealthy parents don’t push “enrichment” - they push social networks. It’s far more important to them that Larlo has a social circle of friends.  Of course, if Larlo is failing, they will get a tutor, but wealthy parents push sports, and social life and experiences like travel because wealthy parents have a social network that ensures their kids will get good jobs. Many of those “underwhelming poor discipline kids” to which you refer are actually the wealthy kids (one of which in my DC’s year was a pot dealer)

By contrast, I’ve never seen “enrichment” like I did at Eastern and Takoma in immigrant, Asian, and first generation American populations - they all value education much more than wealthy BCC parents.  And they all believe that their kids have to do all kinds of after school enrichment - Dr. Li’s, math team, music lessons, science projects, summer internships, etc.  They believe that their kids have yo work much harder to get the same opportunities as wealthy white kids.  And they may not be wrong about that.

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