Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 10:56     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:I know DCUM won't like this, but...
My older DC just graduated from a highly rated magnet in PG county. This year we had to move in with a friend (due to family situation) and younger DC is going to BCC. So I've had children in both school systems now. BCC is supposed to be a "good" school and it is. And it is if "good" means going to school along with a bunch of privileged kids. Sure. That's nice. The academics are...fine. My older child's school was MUCH more academically rigorous and the overall experience was excellent.


The metrics by which most people here judge school quality is flawed. These metrics show an absence of poverty not the prospect of academic rigor.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 10:42     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:I know DCUM won't like this, but...
My older DC just graduated from a highly rated magnet in PG county. This year we had to move in with a friend (due to family situation) and younger DC is going to BCC. So I've had children in both school systems now. BCC is supposed to be a "good" school and it is. And it is if "good" means going to school along with a bunch of privileged kids. Sure. That's nice. The academics are...fine. My older child's school was MUCH more academically rigorous and the overall experience was excellent.


what's the name of the school in PG, PP?
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 10:41     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:Why would you choose it?
I want to go to Einstein and be a low income artist or performer!
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 10:39     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
I know DCUM won't like this, but...
My older DC just graduated from a highly rated magnet in PG county. This year we had to move in with a friend (due to family situation) and younger DC is going to BCC. So I've had children in both school systems now. BCC is supposed to be a "good" school and it is. And it is if "good" means going to school along with a bunch of privileged kids. Sure. That's nice. The academics are...fine. My older child's school was MUCH more academically rigorous and the overall experience was excellent.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 10:22     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
As a teacher who works for a Blair feeder, I have to say that the school counselors work hard to make sure every student is properly placed in the core classes and are able to get into their 1st or 2nd choice electives -- not the case at Wilson HS, where certain classes and courses serve a specific population while others are told that many of the electives no longer accept students even if the students applied right away. It happened to us and it happened to a few of our acquaintances.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 09:51     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:I have to say I am really pleased with Blair. Granted, my kid is in the magnet, but I am pretty impressed withe the other teachers (a couple could be better, but no one is horrible, and several non-mag are excellent. & of course mag teachers are excellent).
But, most of all, I'm impressed with the kids. I volunteered recently, and I noticed that in this school swarmed with a bazillion kids, they were all nice and respectful and seemed like genuinely nice kids.


We're in boundary at Blair too. One of our kids was in SMAC and the other is in CAP. We couldn't have been happier.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 09:50     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Quince Orchard or Poolesville. The parents don't put pressure on the teachers thus the schools are not pressure cookers. Both have great school spirit, great athletic programs, and a diverse student body.

Parents at the W schools look down their noses at both schools but to them I say "f... of..".


Bahahaha, maybe you should have invested in that "W" education for yourself!

It's obvious that you don't know a single parents at either W school, do you?
If you did, you would know that it's ignorant, absurd & laughable to make sweeping blanket generalizations to describe thousands of distinctly diverse parents from different races, religions, cultures & backgrounds.

That whole "look down their noses" at you is your own insecurity talking.

** Yes, I know this thread is old, but it doesn't make my point any less true.


It honestly doesn't help your case that there a zillion snarky condescending posts by W parents daily on this board.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 09:11     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
I'd chose Blair because it has the deepest course offerings in math and science available to all students and is the most diverse HS in the state. It also has the highest average SAT for my kids demographic group.
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 09:05     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill - good students but not a pressure cooker; little drugs or partying on weekends; best sports; great location; best student body.
"Best sports" Ha ha ha.
1+ Churchill had the worst dance team I've ever seen. I guess with all that money, the parents of those students couldn't buy them talent.


They play golf, lacross, and tennis. Dance, only ballet classes for kids, no talent in other forms of dance.
To be on Poms, you don't need any form of talent?
Anonymous
Post 10/18/2018 06:15     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill - good students but not a pressure cooker; little drugs or partying on weekends; best sports; great location; best student body.
"Best sports" Ha ha ha.
1+ Churchill had the worst dance team I've ever seen. I guess with all that money, the parents of those students couldn't buy them talent.


They play golf, lacross, and tennis. Dance, only ballet classes for kids, no talent in other forms of dance.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 23:59     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Churchill - good students but not a pressure cooker; little drugs or partying on weekends; best sports; great location; best student body.
"Best sports" Ha ha ha.
1+ Churchill had the worst dance team I've ever seen. I guess with all that money, the parents of those students couldn't buy them talent.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 23:45     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:Churchill - good students but not a pressure cooker; little drugs or partying on weekends; best sports; great location; best student body.
"Best sports" Ha ha ha.
Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 23:38     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why would you choose it?


wheaten high school


Let me get this straight, pot-stirrer.

You revived a year and a half old zombie thread so you could tell us your dream school for your kid, yet you don't even know how to correctly spell the name of the school??

I call troll.

Anonymous
Post 10/17/2018 23:29     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
Anonymous wrote:Quince Orchard or Poolesville. The parents don't put pressure on the teachers thus the schools are not pressure cookers. Both have great school spirit, great athletic programs, and a diverse student body.

Parents at the W schools look down their noses at both schools but to them I say "f... of..".


Bahahaha, maybe you should have invested in that "W" education for yourself!

It's obvious that you don't know a single parents at either W school, do you?
If you did, you would know that it's ignorant, absurd & laughable to make sweeping blanket generalizations to describe thousands of distinctly diverse parents from different races, religions, cultures & backgrounds.

That whole "look down their noses" at you is your own insecurity talking.

** Yes, I know this thread is old, but it doesn't make my point any less true.
Anonymous
Post 10/11/2018 21:50     Subject: S/o if you could choose any MCPS high school, which would you choose?
I have to say I am really pleased with Blair. Granted, my kid is in the magnet, but I am pretty impressed withe the other teachers (a couple could be better, but no one is horrible, and several non-mag are excellent. & of course mag teachers are excellent).
But, most of all, I'm impressed with the kids. I volunteered recently, and I noticed that in this school swarmed with a bazillion kids, they were all nice and respectful and seemed like genuinely nice kids.