Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 13:14     Subject: Re:Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:Even the Washington Post has referred to "the W schools" -- and they have always been Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, and Winston Churchill.

What sets these schools apart? They still have predominantly white students from upper income homes, and parents will pay a premium to move into the clusters that feed into these schools.



What a silly comment? These schools also have many Asian and Jewish students so they are not all white. WJ is also very international.
Anonymous
Post 03/10/2014 10:26     Subject: Re:Three W's?
Please see this post about the history of the three W's in mcps. Pls stop trying to put WJ before Wooten.


Anonymous
Post 03/09/2014 23:31     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:I will be your MoCo high school historian. I graduated from a W school in the late 1980s. At that time there were just three W schools -- Whitman, Wootton and (Winston) Churchill. There were no magnet programs at any schools and Woodward and Walter Johnson had just been consolidated (hence WJ wildcats instead of spartans). WJ was considered second tier, even below BCC. Very shortly after I graduated, a part of the Wootton pyramid was redistricted to RM. In order to appease very angry parents, they created the IB program. About that time, the county also implemented the STEM magnet program at Blair (which used to be the best school in the county when my parents went there in the early 1960s). Later, throughout the 1990s, as Bethesda became a more desirable place to live for well-off people, WJ's stock rose. It's a great school and one I would definitely select for my own children. However, I did not know that it had entered the W pantheon until I started reading DCUM a couple of years ago.


Please see this post about the history of the three W's in mcps. Pls stop trying to put WJ before Wooten.
Anonymous
Post 03/09/2014 08:58     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:The traditional 3 w schools are Whitman, Churchill, and WJ. Some people now include Wootton in that group, it is a good school certainly but probably a wrung below those 3.


Wooten just pushed in...
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2014 22:57     Subject: Three W's?
Thanks 22:50!
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2014 22:50     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:if you were in whitman district, but your kid got into RM-IB, what would you recommend?


Whitman grad here. I went to college with someone from RM-IB. I was well-prepared for college. She was extra-well-prepared. For the situation you describe, I would not make a blanket recommendation.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2014 08:45     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I think Wooten is better than Walter Johnson.
Wonton...


Go do your homework.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2014 08:12     Subject: Re:Three W's?
I don't think a lot of parents with kids in Whitman or its cluster schools spend much time thinking about Wooton, probably even Churchill but depends where in Bethesda you live I suppose. Much more likely your kids will have friends at BCC or even the DC schools. That's nothing in favor of Whitman or against Wooton, I just feel that most families we know didn't consider both highschools because geographically they are nowhere near each other.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2014 23:52     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The most important thing to me is class size. I don't know if there's any place to get classes smaller than 20 other than at privates.


Oh well, I am Indian, so these rules do not apply to my kid.

My kid can go to any school in MCPS and will do well, because I will not accept any namby pamby excuse of a school ranking, class sizes, limited AP classes or a poor MCPS curriculum. My kids go to magnets but I do not think that it signifies that my kids are gifted or the schools themselves are amazing. They go there so that they can get the best education currently available in the county.

I devote time and energy on their education. If just a postal code could make my kids smarter, I would have done that.


Uh okay. And what makes you think you're doing anything that other posters are not doing?

Oh and you're not the only Indian around. Your attitude is a disgrace to your heritage.
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2014 23:49     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:I think Wooten is better than Walter Johnson.
Wonton...
Anonymous
Post 03/07/2014 20:41     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:LOL

How good the school is does not matter - because they are all MCPS schools.

Question to ask is - How good a student is your kid? Can he work hard? Is he bright/gifted/driven?

Then ask - Are you great, supportive parents? Is your marriage strong or will his education get derailed because of divorce/custody issues in the family? Can you give him a solid family life? Is there a chance that your kid will get into bad influences and experiment with drugs and alcohol? Do you value education?



True. Very true.

Anonymous
Post 03/07/2014 20:39     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:Any kid will be successful in any MCPS HS based on -

1) How smart the kid is and how hard he works?
2) The home environment of the student and the value placed on education.

.... school is possibly the lowest on this scale. Statistics showing how well W students or IB or magnets are doing is skewed, because these kids are getting/have always got - extra enrichment (tutoring, coaching, museum trips etc) OUTSIDE of school. So, the STUDENTS and PARENTS are the key, not the school.


Very true.


Anonymous
Post 03/06/2014 23:29     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:The most important thing to me is class size. I don't know if there's any place to get classes smaller than 20 other than at privates.


Oh well, I am Indian, so these rules do not apply to my kid.

My kid can go to any school in MCPS and will do well, because I will not accept any namby pamby excuse of a school ranking, class sizes, limited AP classes or a poor MCPS curriculum. My kids go to magnets but I do not think that it signifies that my kids are gifted or the schools themselves are amazing. They go there so that they can get the best education currently available in the county.

I devote time and energy on their education. If just a postal code could make my kids smarter, I would have done that.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2014 23:13     Subject: Three W's?
Anonymous wrote:if you were in whitman district, but your kid got into RM-IB, what would you recommend?


My DC has a few friends (zoned for Whitman) at RM-IB who like it and I think are doing well. I don't think very many Whitman zoned kids try for RM but if your DC wants IB then it's a good option.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2014 22:43     Subject: Three W's?
if you were in whitman district, but your kid got into RM-IB, what would you recommend?