There are 26,407 high schools in the U.S. That would put Blair in the top 0.02% of high schools in the entire country. I don't have a horse in this race, but I do have some perspective.

Blair is a ghetto school.

Anonymous wrote:Can't believe this thread is still going. Can we just agree that non-magnet Blair sucks and magnet Blair is full of really really really obnoxious parents and kids?

Is that the bottom line??

No, the bottom line is YOU suck.

Anonymous wrote:The magnet program is an exclusive school within a school. The non-magnet courses taken by these students are limited to English, Social Studies, etc. The magnet is an exclusive club that draws the best at the entrance exams (for which there are prep classes) from across the county. The performance of magnet students, mostly new immigrants, reflects their family philosophy and not Blair teaching.

I think the Blair High School performance without the magnet would be no different from Kennedy, maybe even worse.

Ignorance is strong with this one

Can't believe this thread is still going. Can we just agree that non-magnet Blair sucks and magnet Blair is full of really really really obnoxious parents and kids?

Is that the bottom line??

Anonymous wrote:The magnet program is an exclusive school within a school. The non-magnet courses taken by these students are limited to English, Social Studies, etc. The magnet is an exclusive club that draws the best at the entrance exams (for which there are prep classes) from across the county. The performance of magnet students, mostly new immigrants, reflects their family philosophy and not Blair teaching.

I think the Blair High School performance without the magnet would be no different from Kennedy, maybe even worse.

How many times do I have to post this..1/2 of my child's day is spent in non-magnet classes at Blair. English, SS, Language, PE. We are not new immigrants. My child did no prep. In my child's circle of friends, there is no one I would call a new immigrant. Based on DCUM some people do prep..but I have no clue how wide spread it is. PP is making big generalizations. We live in the western part of the county and have a child at another HS. I am impressed with the involvement and opportunities at Blair. My child does a sport and has made friends with neighborhood kids in addition to the magnet.

You know there is a cream for butthurt, right?

Anonymous wrote:The magnet program is an exclusive school within a school. The non-magnet courses taken by these students are limited to English, Social Studies, etc. The magnet is an exclusive club that draws the best at the entrance exams (for which there are prep classes) from across the county. The performance of magnet students, mostly new immigrants, reflects their family philosophy and not Blair teaching.

I think the Blair High School performance without the magnet would be no different from Kennedy, maybe even worse.

You can probably get some idea of the performance of non-magnet kids at Blair and Kennedy by looking at the test scores of the URM group.

The magnet program is an exclusive school within a school. The non-magnet courses taken by these students are limited to English, Social Studies, etc. The magnet is an exclusive club that draws the best at the entrance exams (for which there are prep classes) from across the county. The performance of magnet students, mostly new immigrants, reflects their family philosophy and not Blair teaching.

I think the Blair High School performance without the magnet would be no different from Kennedy, maybe even worse.

The application based magnet programs in any school takes only the best. It is for students who are smart and hard working. These students have to rise to the challenge of a rigorous curriculum and equally able peer group each and every day in the class room. And they have to excel outside of the school. Yes, there is time management and project management skills and there is extra academic work and coaching outside of school. Similar to how the athletes practice. At the end of it, very few get into these elite programs and you need to have the brains, hard work, perseverance and mindset to succeed.

I have seen that parents who criticize these schools are the ones whose kids are not in the programs. That is a case of sour grapes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race."
and that's what you just did.

To be fair to the PP, "Asian" is not a race -- unless you'd put Rasputin, Saddam Hussein, Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, and the Emperor Hirohito all into the same racial category?

And not all Whites are racists. 1/2 of them are Democrats!

Jesus is Asian too, if we are including Middle Easy.

Eastern not Easy!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race."
and that's what you just did.

To be fair to the PP, "Asian" is not a race -- unless you'd put Rasputin, Saddam Hussein, Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, and the Emperor Hirohito all into the same racial category?

And not all Whites are racists. 1/2 of them are Democrats!

Jesus is Asian too, if we are including Middle Easy.

Anonymous wrote:

"Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race."
and that's what you just did.

To be fair to the PP, "Asian" is not a race -- unless you'd put Rasputin, Saddam Hussein, Gandhi, Ho Chi Minh, Mao, and the Emperor Hirohito all into the same racial category?

Anonymous wrote:Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race.

The facts are clear. Most of Blair accomplishments are tied to the magnet which is a school within a school. Like similar programs elsewhere the magnet is predominantly Asian.

The Intel/Rengeron winners tend to be immigrants and predominantly Asian.

The reasonable conclusion is that Blair High School has little to do with their success. The magnet has a research project course that pushes these students to participate in science fairs. It is not something other high schools have. Hence the magnet shines in an area that it has a monopoly.

Your so-called facts are fogged.

The Magnet is a program within the school. Magnet students take non-magnet classes and non-magnet students can and do take magnet classes.

Many of the Blair winners are not Asians.

The majority of HS in the nation (Whitman, Churchill, Sidwell Friends, River hill, Centennial), every Magnet school, every STEM schools participate in the science talent search. Blair magnet does not have a monopoly. The all-magnet schools have more resources than Blair which is a "part-time" magnet. Blair just produce more winners.

You sound jealous and hurt by Blair success.

"Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race."
and that's what you just did.

Let us not try to dissolve everything into a discussion about race.

The facts are clear. Most of Blair accomplishments are tied to the magnet which is a school within a school. Like similar programs elsewhere the magnet is predominantly Asian.

The Intel/Rengeron winners tend to be immigrants and predominantly Asian.

The reasonable conclusion is that Blair High School has little to do with their success. The magnet has a research project course that pushes these students to participate in science fairs. It is not something other high schools have. Hence the magnet shines in an area that it has a monopoly.