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Anonymous wrote:I'm an Einstein parent and don't know anyone who has this "concern." My white affluent kid is not at all lost and we are confident he will go on to do very well, just as his Einstein grad sister has. (She is headed to med school this fall.)

Some of us live in the red zone because we like it and our kids get a great education here.

Of course you don't. They won't live in the Einstein district, and the numbers aren't exactly on your side if you're trying to argue that Einstein appeals to affluent whites. It's very hard to attact and retain affluent families when a school has numbers like Einstein. Just ask DCPS.

Of course I don't what?

There is indeed a critical mass of affluent and middle-class white families at Einstein. My kids travel in circles of motivated, bright, high-achieving students. Yes, at Einstein.

And it is part of MCPS, not DCPS. Huge difference.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an Einstein parent and don't know anyone who has this "concern." My white affluent kid is not at all lost and we are confident he will go on to do very well, just as his Einstein grad sister has. (She is headed to med school this fall.)

Some of us live in the red zone because we like it and our kids get a great education here.

Of course you don't. They won't live in the Einstein district, and the numbers aren't exactly on your side if you're trying to argue that Einstein appeals to affluent whites. It's very hard to attact and retain affluent families when a school has numbers like Einstein. Just ask DCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:
full scholarship to Yale
student from the "red zone"

You can make the best out of any situation.

I hate elitists; the only thing that makes them special is their bank account.

You hate elitists but are going to Yale on someone else's dime?

Either you're stupid or ungrateful, or both.

That's actually the concern of many parents about Einstein. Their own kids will get lost while a hardship case with somewhat decent credentials helps an elite institution like Yale meet its quotas.

I'm an Einstein parent and don't know anyone who has this "concern." My white affluent kid is not at all lost and we are confident he will go on to do very well, just as his Einstein grad sister has. (She is headed to med school this fall.)

Some of us live in the red zone because we like it and our kids get a great education here.

Anonymous wrote:
full scholarship to Yale
student from the "red zone"

You can make the best out of any situation.

I hate elitists; the only thing that makes them special is their bank account.

You hate elitists but are going to Yale on someone else's dime?

Either you're stupid or ungrateful, or both.

That's actually the concern of many parents about Einstein. Their own kids will get lost while a hardship case with somewhat decent credentials helps an elite institution like Yale meet its quotas.

Anonymous wrote:9:15 so diversity = bad. got it.

That is the perception in MCo, at least in the western part.

I don't share that view and my child is thriving at Einstein.

9:15 so diversity = bad. got it.

Anonymous wrote:If Einstein is as bad as some people say, then why did it rank so high in Jay Matthews' rankings -- http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/schools/2011/list/local/

It ranked 41st out of more than 170 schools. Granted, that is not as high as the Montgomery County schools in the wealthiest parts of the county. But still, it was not far behind Rockville and Montgomery Blair high schools.

I understand that the rankings are not comprehensive, and might not include factors such as student safety and satisfaction.

What did you make of this ranking?

Matthews' rankings were about the number of college-level courses available to students in high schools. Einstein apparently has a lot of such courses available for those who choose to take them.

Einstein is a very mixed school in terms of socioeconomic and other diversity. The presence of such a population makes people nervous. I think that's why people think that Einstein is a "bad" school.

Anonymous wrote:That is not a very impressive list of colleges. Especially compared with the Bethesda/Chevy Chase high schools. Just sayin.

full scholarship to Yale
student from the "red zone"

You can make the best out of any situation.

I hate elitists; the only thing that makes them special is their bank account.

If Einstein is as bad as some people say, then why did it rank so high in Jay Matthews' rankings -- http://apps.washingtonpost.com/highschoolchallenge/schools/2011/list/local/

It ranked 41st out of more than 170 schools. Granted, that is not as high as the Montgomery County schools in the wealthiest parts of the county. But still, it was not far behind Rockville and Montgomery Blair high schools.

I understand that the rankings are not comprehensive, and might not include factors such as student safety and satisfaction.

What did you make of this ranking?

These posts are suggesting that Einstein doesn't "produce" enough kids who attend the most selective and impressive schools. Attendance at highly selective schools tracks with SES - i.e., under 10% of students in the 140 or so "top" schools are from the poorest families, nearly 75% are from the top 1%. If you look at college matriculation from most MCPS schools, Montgomery College and UMCP will probably take the greatest share of students. The economy also complicates any data you may look at. UMCP gets plenty of kids from Blair's vaunted magnet and CAP programs and their National Merit Scholars. Writing $50K annual tuition checks is just not going to be possible for many families in some parts of the county.

Have to agree with 10:41. I wouldn't want to be somewhere where all the kids were going to Harvard & Yale, but there were only one or two stand out schools on the list that was posted (and the sentiment seemed like it was being posted from a - look at all these great schools, AEHS is a strong school - standpoint). Makes you wonder ...

Anonymous wrote:That is not a very impressive list of colleges. Especially compared with the Bethesda/Chevy Chase high schools. Just sayin.

As a PP said, we don't know if that list is a list of colleges that visited a fair at Einstein, or a list of colleges where kids were admitted.

Either way, is "impressive college" the eventual goal?

We know two Einstein kids at Ivies, fwiw. One graduated last year and is doing graduate school at another Ivy.

That is not a very impressive list of colleges. Especially compared with the Bethesda/Chevy Chase high schools. Just sayin.

3. Didn't the Washington Post Education columnist say that even the so-called worst HS in MOCO is probably among the top HS in the country.

perhaps true if what you are focused on are the acamedics - frankly, I think DD would do fine acamedicaly at any MC school, but I am concerned about the peer group she'd be in with at the school I'm zoned for. i say this having gone to a city school (not around here) where I was in the honors/enrichment courses so acamedics were fine, but witnessed fights on a weekly basis, including one where a student struck a teacher, and it was just generally not a safe-feeling place to go to school.

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3. Didn't the Washington Post Education columnist say that even the so-called worst HS in MOCO is probably among the top HS in the country.

This is a good point to keep in mind. When we moved to MoCo from another state, I went a little crazy with the home/school search. Finally, I calmed down and realized that ANY MoCo school was better than the schools in the city we were coming from.