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Anonymous wrote:OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

Private is so much more expensive than moving, especially if you have more than one kid.

We considered moving to be in bounds for WW (we are zoned for BCC) and the change in housing costs was going to be more than sending one kid to private school. Perhaps we could have found a house that was smaller and not as nice as current house, but that seemed like a silly trade. Opted out of mcps and have zero regrets. Friends at BCC say they are happy but then tell me stories about what’s going on and I have to wonder if it’s just a cope because they bought a 2m house and now can’t afford private.

Anonymous wrote:Whitman is very good if you have a bright, ambitious student. They have all the resources - all the AP classes, generally good teachers, all the extracurriculars, and a generally supportive environment. The overall culture is very performance oriented.

But Whitman would absolutely suck for the below average student. Would 100 percent go private in that circumstance.

+1 Agree

Are u moving OP?
U know you can’t just choose your HS

Anonymous wrote:By lily white, does that also include Italians (who were never considered white before)? Whitman offers Italian language class as a language option for students.

And offers Mandarin and Latin!

I see a good number of Asians and South Americans. There are a lot of Diplomat families from all over the world that attend WW.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

Private is so much more expensive than moving, especially if you have more than one kid.

Absolutely. I have one kid with special needs and one neurotypical kid, and it was so much cheaper and nicer to move to a neighborhood with better schools. Why would I throw money out of the window and pay for 50K/kid private, when I can benefit from MCPS services and accommodations for my SN kid, acceleration for my neurotypical kid, pay for enrichment outside of school, and invest the rest for college?

Even paying for more expensive housing to move to the better school cluster (maybe not what OP might have to do, considering the two clusters she's eyeing) was entirely worth it, since when my kids graduate, I still have a house in a pleasant neighborhood that has very stable real estate pricing. The house itself is somewhat of an investment.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

Private is so much more expensive than moving, especially if you have more than one kid.

Whitman is very good if you have a bright, ambitious student. They have all the resources - all the AP classes, generally good teachers, all the extracurriculars, and a generally supportive environment. The overall culture is very performance oriented.

But Whitman would absolutely suck for the below average student. Would 100 percent go private in that circumstance.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

Yes, have done it a few times already; many people do; at least those of us who cannot afford private, because not all of us can.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BCC is terrible. The administration can't do anything right. You have to be responsible for everything including keeping track of your kid's credits and what classes are needed to graduate because the school has no idea who you kid is, what classes they've taken, etc. Really nuts that any of those people can keep a job.

I have 2 kids at BCC and am not sure what this PP is referencing. BCC is ok and didn’t have this issue. If I had choices, though, I would wish we went private and stayed out of MCPS entirely.

Thank you PP, I wish I could do private, but unfortunately, cannot afford it.

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

+1

OP, you are seriously considering moving to be inbounds for a different MCPS? Just pay for private.

Anonymous wrote:By lily white, does that also include Italians (who were never considered white before)? Whitman offers Italian language class as a language option for students.

Some MCPS high schools have specializations. WW has had a language specialization for years: some of interest to the intelligence services and the State Department (Russian, Arabic, etc), others like Italian that are an expanded offering compared to elsewhere.

Anonymous wrote:By lily white, does that also include Italians (who were never considered white before)? Whitman offers Italian language class as a language option for students.

What decade are you living in?

Anonymous wrote:By lily white, does that also include Italians (who were never considered white before)? Whitman offers Italian language class as a language option for students.

What a strange question. This isn't a categorization by country. It's purely a visual on the skin color when you look at the student body. Some southern Europeans are very swarthy, others white as a sheet. A lot of the South Americans I know are recent descendants of Europeans, and one of my Mexican friends is blonde, blue-eyed and very pale.

But lily white in the WW context mostly means pale skinned and generally white American with small additions of western Europeans and East Asians.

OP yep you should move to Whitman. Bye.