As someone who grew up poor and received extensive test prep through a program I was in I can tell you that you are wrong. All the paid for college trios, summer job opportunities, etc cannot make up for the basic lack of preparation starting from before preschool and the lack of exposure. If I don't know basic things like what a mantel or a credenza or hummus because of basic lack of life exposure all the test prep in the world can reverse that basic lack of knowledge. If you are curious, I went to an exclusive prep school in NYC but grew up in housing projects near where Jay Z grew up. You are debating out of anger and based on a theory that you have tested in your head but while I admire your energy you are wrong.

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Good luck with your "Victory Lap" and good luck with life PP. You seriously have aggression issues that you may want to talk to a therapist about. I'm sure that type of attitude blows over real well in your real life.

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Why don't you pay $700,000 for a house on Victory Lane and have your kids go to the neighborhood schools? The tests scores are great and obviously you don't think there is a drug problem. Otherwise, get back on topic.

No, I'll just do a Victory Lap. Because clearly you have nothing left but insults, and insults are an admission you've lost.

The important point is this: other DCUM readers won't have to give any credit to your ridiculous argument that "Churchill is full of druggies who only get good scores because their parents can afford test prep" because this has been disproved by me and several other posters.

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Why don't you pay $700,000 for a house on Victory Lane and have your kids go to the neighborhood schools? The tests scores are great and obviously you don't think there is a drug problem. Otherwise, get back on topic.

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St. Andrew's property back's up to Victory Lane but it's address is 8804 Postoak Road Potomac, MD 20854. Check the map again. Churchill is at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough. Other schools in the neighborhood, Hoover Middle School and Beverly Farms Elem. but both are under construction at this time. The shooting that occurred at the house was drug related. Know the neighbors. Talked with the police doing the investigation.

Oh sure, we'll get right out there and interview the neighbors ourselves, also the police assigned to this case. Also looking at the map, the house is 3-4 blocks from Churchill at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough, which hardly qualifies as being "across the street" from Churchill.

Basically, you've proved that ... St. Andrews kids do drugs?

You must be so ignorant you can't look at the map straight. The Churchill school property runs several blocks along Victory. You don't live in the neighborhood or you wouldn't be questioning where the school is in relation to the house where the shooting took place or why there was a shooting there to begin with. So don't give a damn about the issue. It's not your concern.

A kid walking from along Victory Lane from Churchill towards the alleged drug den would have to pass FOUR intersecting streets (Buckhannon, Harker, Greenlane and Bunnnell) AND they'd have to walk past St. Andrews before getting to that alleged drug house. Churchill ends BEFORE the first of these streets (Buckhannon) and Churchill also ends before St. Andrews.

Nuts. You're plain nuts. And I hope this proves that you can't just make stuff up ("the drug house is across the street from a well-known MCPS high school) and assume nobody will check.

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St. Andrew's property back's up to Victory Lane but it's address is 8804 Postoak Road Potomac, MD 20854. Check the map again. Churchill is at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough. Other schools in the neighborhood, Hoover Middle School and Beverly Farms Elem. but both are under construction at this time. The shooting that occurred at the house was drug related. Know the neighbors. Talked with the police doing the investigation.

Oh sure, we'll get right out there and interview the neighbors ourselves, also the police assigned to this case. Also looking at the map, the house is 3-4 blocks from Churchill at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough, which hardly qualifies as being "across the street" from Churchill.

Basically, you've proved that ... St. Andrews kids do drugs?

You must be so ignorant you can't look at the map straight. The Churchill school property runs several blocks along Victory. You don't live in the neighborhood or you wouldn't be questioning where the school is in relation to the house where the shooting took place or why there was a shooting there to begin with. So don't give a damn about the issue. It's not your concern.

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St. Andrew's property back's up to Victory Lane but it's address is 8804 Postoak Road Potomac, MD 20854. Check the map again. Churchill is at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough. Other schools in the neighborhood, Hoover Middle School and Beverly Farms Elem. but both are under construction at this time. The shooting that occurred at the house was drug related. Know the neighbors. Talked with the police doing the investigation.

Oh sure, we'll get right out there and interview the neighbors ourselves, also the police assigned to this case. Also looking at the map, the house is 3-4 blocks from Churchill at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough, which hardly qualifies as being "across the street" from Churchill.

Basically, you've proved that ... St. Andrews kids do drugs?

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St. Andrew's property back's up to Victory Lane but it's address is 8804 Postoak Road Potomac, MD 20854. Check the map again. Churchill is at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough. Other schools in the neighborhood, Hoover Middle School and Beverly Farms Elem. but both are under construction at this time. The shooting that occurred at the house was drug related. Know the neighbors. Talked with the police doing the investigation.

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The high school was ranked #1 in the state of Maryland by US News and World Report last year. A drug house was busted by Montgomery County Police right across the street from the school last spring. Someone in the neighborhood was keeping the drug dealer busy enough to be located there.

Really? If there was indeed a "drug house" located "right across the street from the school" than one would think there'd be press coverage of such an event. Post a link that proves it happened. I'm betting we'll see Romney elected president before we see such a link.

Google 8521 Victory Lane, Potomac, MD.

Huh? So I googled 8521 Victory Lane, Potomac MD. It's right across the street from ... St. Andrews' school. Obviously, St. Andrews' is not an MCPS school. There's a Herbert Hoover Middle School maybe 3-4 blocks away, and Wooton appears to be about one mile away.

Plus, there was no mention of drug dealing at the house, at least on the 1st two pages of Google results that came up after I cut and pasted the address you gave above into Google. There were some references to "men in their 20s" renting the house, so maybe you are assuming that all men in their 20s are on drugs?

St. Andrew's property back's up to Victory Lane but it's address is 8804 Postoak Road Potomac, MD 20854. Check the map again. Churchill is at the corner of Victory and Gainsborough. Other schools in the neighborhood, Hoover Middle School and Beverly Farms Elem. but both are under construction at this time. The shooting that occurred at the house was drug related. Know the neighbors. Talked with the police doing the investigation.