Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 20:00     Subject: Re:RM versus Wooton
Right before the Giant across from Wootton closed we said our goodbyes to the cashiers. They mentioned that the Wootton kids would come in everyday at lunch and after school and steal hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise. So, they are not all angels.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:56     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We had one kid in IB magnet in RM and one in Wootton.

I can't tell much about non-magnet in RM, but IB magnet was fantastic. I will pick that over Wootton any day.


Full pass.

great.. room for other kids who want IB magnet.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:53     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:We had one kid in IB magnet in RM and one in Wootton.

I can't tell much about non-magnet in RM, but IB magnet was fantastic. I will pick that over Wootton any day.


Full pass.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:50     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


And has been said time and time again on others posts that colleges do not care about random IB courses, only the full diploma. So kids are better off taking AP's


Not true at all. When most colleges recalculate GPA they give the same bump for AP and IB classes. Many give no bump for honors.

+1 college application has a place for AP or IB courses, but not a place for IB diploma (from what I recall when I reviewed DC's college app). DC is in IB magnet.

RM has a ton of AP classes, and all of the IB students take AP classes, too.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:48     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


And has been said time and time again on others posts that colleges do not care about random IB courses, only the full diploma. So kids are better off taking AP's


Not true at all. When most colleges recalculate GPA they give the same bump for AP and IB classes. Many give no bump for honors.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:47     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


Your post supports (maybe unintentionally) "RM is nothing but another ghetto school without IB" argument.


Hardly, it's a fine school with superior academic opportunities available to all its students.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:46     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Isn't there 25-30 seats reserved for RM cluster kids for IB magnet? That's a huge advantage.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:45     Subject: RM versus Wooton
We had one kid in IB magnet in RM and one in Wootton.

I can't tell much about non-magnet in RM, but IB magnet was fantastic. I will pick that over Wootton any day.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 13:49     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:RM kid strikes again.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/richard-montgomery-high-school-student-accused-of-robbing-shell-gas-station-at-knifepoint


Not IB kid
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 13:17     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


And has been said time and time again on others posts that colleges do not care about random IB courses, only the full diploma. So kids are better off taking AP's
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 13:16     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


Your post supports (maybe unintentionally) "RM is nothing but another ghetto school without IB" argument.

DP.. not at all, it just means that RM has AP, IB, and regular whereas Wootton just has AP and regular.. ie "there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.".
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 12:26     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.


Your post supports (maybe unintentionally) "RM is nothing but another ghetto school without IB" argument.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 12:10     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Sure, RM is demographically more diverse, but the IB is open to anyone in 11th and 12th grade and there is nothing remotely comparable at Wootton so there are richer academic opportunities at RM that aren't available to Wootton students.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 12:06     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:Wootton has a more engaged and less problematic student body. The school isn’t as nice and there aren’t stores, fast food places nearby, but it is safer and has less fights, drugs in school, etc… it isn’t perfect but I have had 2 go to W and 1 go RM. Youngest didn’t even apply to IB and will go to W. RM does have better sports teams on the whole.

There is a reason homes are pricier in the Wootton district. RM fills a subpar school with IB to make it near the testing scores of Wootton that has not one magnet program.


Actually, a big part of the reason why homes are more expensive in Wootton district is the location of those homes. There are very few apartments. There are way fewer R40- or R60-zoned developments for Wootton also compared with in RM, which has downtown Rockville, Twinbrook, Hungerford, and many other areas with higher density zoning.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 12:05     Subject: RM versus Wooton
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:RM kid strikes again.

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/richard-montgomery-high-school-student-accused-of-robbing-shell-gas-station-at-knifepoint


So sad. I hate to see our youth throw away their futures like this.

He's 18. He won't be coming back to RM. And with Crown HS, we don't know what RM or Wootton will look like.


Are you sure he won’t be coming back to RM?

He's 18. He committed a crime with a weapon. By the time he gets out, he will be over 21 and will have aged out of public HS.