Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BFES feeds Churchill High

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools/winston-churchill-high-school-9153

U.S. News calculates these values based on student performance on state exit exams and internationally available exams on college-level course work (AP®/IB exams).

Proficient in English 95%
Proficient in Algebra 97%
College Readiness Index 85.2

Data speaks itself

Is your argument that they start smarter, have better teachers, or have more opportunities? How does this data show that half of the grade level is ready for advanced math in 4th grade where there are almost zero students from other schools- many of whom probably have similar statistics? Or is your point that more schools should be like BFES and advance students because their results will end up looking like this? Or, even more concerning, is your point that rich kids should have more opportunities because they have fewer obstacles to success?

No, my argument is BFES is doing right thing to support majority of its students need not just only top 1% super smart kids. That is what public school is supposed to. As far as I understand, the county budget gives all MoCo students the same amount money, BFES does not get extra money because its location. I am not rich (single median level income for a family of 5) but I don't see those rich kids have any advantage and do any better at school than my kids other than the fact they enjoy their summer vacation on beaches while we stay in our basement to keep ourselves cool.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:BFES feeds Churchill High

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools/winston-churchill-high-school-9153

U.S. News calculates these values based on student performance on state exit exams and internationally available exams on college-level course work (AP®/IB exams).

Proficient in English 95%
Proficient in Algebra 97%
College Readiness Index 85.2

Data speaks itself

But what does it say? That half of students at Beverly Farms ES are extra super good at math? That's not what it says to me. What it says to me is that the kids who go to Churchill High School have affluent parents.

Because they're bribing their way into these programs? More likely it's because they have highly educated parents, and are disproportionately smart and high achieving. Do you honestly not know that one of the main determinants of educational aptitude and success is the aptitude and success of the parents? It would be surprising if these numbers did not look like this.

Anonymous wrote:BFES feeds Churchill High

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools/winston-churchill-high-school-9153

U.S. News calculates these values based on student performance on state exit exams and internationally available exams on college-level course work (AP®/IB exams).

Proficient in English 95%
Proficient in Algebra 97%
College Readiness Index 85.2

Data speaks itself

But what does it say? That half of students at Beverly Farms ES are extra super good at math? That's not what it says to me. What it says to me is that the kids who go to Churchill High School have affluent parents.

Anonymous wrote:BFES feeds Churchill High

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools/winston-churchill-high-school-9153

U.S. News calculates these values based on student performance on state exit exams and internationally available exams on college-level course work (AP®/IB exams).

Proficient in English 95%
Proficient in Algebra 97%
College Readiness Index 85.2

Data speaks itself

Is your argument that they start smarter, have better teachers, or have more opportunities? How does this data show that half of the grade level is ready for advanced math in 4th grade where there are almost zero students from other schools- many of whom probably have similar statistics? Or is your point that more schools should be like BFES and advance students because their results will end up looking like this? Or, even more concerning, is your point that rich kids should have more opportunities because they have fewer obstacles to success?

BFES feeds Churchill High

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools/winston-churchill-high-school-9153

U.S. News calculates these values based on student performance on state exit exams and internationally available exams on college-level course work (AP®/IB exams).

Proficient in English 95%
Proficient in Algebra 97%
College Readiness Index 85.2

Data speaks itself

And evenutally when they put 1/2 the class in there, the class does not move so fast any more because there are lots of kids who really shouldn't be there (see AAP posts from Fairfax).