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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

You are only showing your ignorance.
Surely you have heard of the Intel Sciences competition? The most prestigious sciences and math competition in the nation,right?
But I wouldn't hold my breath...

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.

PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair. I wish they could get in. But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas. I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.

On paper only.
These rankings are based on SAT/tests scores.
As said before, TJ scores (and many other schools) will always be higher than Blair because TJ is an all selective, all magnet school while Blair scores consist of not only the magnet program (about 400 students) but the whole school population (about 2900 students) with a diverse ethnic, social, economic backgrounds population.

But when it comes to real competition, Blair outshines, outperforms TJ:
more Intel/Regeneron Science finalists. (more than any other school in the country)
more US physics Olympiads
more percentage of NMSF, etc...

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Anonymous wrote:I was searching for house on sale using zillow, and noticed that north VA (fairfax, falls church) has more homes for sale and the home prices are more reasonable compare with what you can find in Montgomery county, MD. Both regions are close to DC. I guess the effect of DC on both regions are pretty much the same. I heard of many bad things about Moco, such as increasing property tax rate, sanctuary city controversy, weakening public education system, etc. I also hear good things about north Virginia, like good education qulity, etc. Then why are there more houses on market in north VA, and cheaper? Does this meaning that people are leaving VA. And more people are move in MoCo?

This may be the most ridiculous thing I have seen on DCUM today.

If living around sanctuary cities is a problem for you, OP, then by all means, save your money and move to NoVa.

Yup, MoCO giving sanctuary to Henry Sanchez, so he would rape his 14 year old classmate...multiple times in a school bathroom. I bet she would not be raped if she lived in Virginia.

Because VA doesn't have illegal immigrant HSers?

At least Virginia doesn't condone illegal immigrants or offer santuary. The entire United States has enough home grown criminals, don't need the vermin from other countries who arrive here illegally.

MoCo is not a sanctuary county. NoVA has tons of illegal immigrants, just like MoCo. NoVA allows illegal immigrant children in school, just like MoCo; NoVA allows 21 yr olds in public schools; just like MoCo.

And btw, you compare a county to the entire northern VA. x

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.

PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair. I wish they could get in. But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas. I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.

TJ is a whole school magnet. Blair has 100 kids in the magnet, and yet, they do much better than TJ in most of the STEM competitions. You are comparing an entire school with a fraction of the school. Not really a fair comparison, is it.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

Of course nobody has heard of Blair.

Tj is nationally ranked at #1
Blair came in at #528

Hardly anything to be proud of.

Next.

That is not the magnet part.

Small magnet means little when rest of school repels.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

Of course nobody has heard of Blair.

Tj is nationally ranked at #1
Blair came in at #528

Hardly anything to be proud of.

Next.

That is not the magnet part.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

Of course nobody has heard of Blair.

Tj is nationally ranked at #1
Blair came in at #528

Hardly anything to be proud of.

Next.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

The Blair magnet program has higher sat scores than TJ and the 5 or 10 absolute smartest kids in the entire region every year.

Really, thry where are all of Blair's Rhodes Scolafs? Count me in as someone also who never even heard of Blair.

Eight Rhodes Scholars have graduated from TJ since its inception, more than the number of Rhodes Scholars from most colleges in the United States.

Blair has been open for 50 years linger than TJ, and has 80% more studests, if Blair were so superior youd think they would be producing more Rhodes scolars, but NOPE.

Weird, I've never heard of Blaire.

Blair magnet has 3 times the number of Intel scholars as TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

The Blair magnet program has higher sat scores than TJ and the 5 or 10 absolute smartest kids in the entire region every year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

No. It's the top STEM program in the area. The school making that's making TJ eats dust.

I haven't lived here for very long but I'm pretty sure you're wrong or a troll. I have never heard of Blair but I knew about TJ in my prior state on the west coast.

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Anonymous wrote:I was searching for house on sale using zillow, and noticed that north VA (fairfax, falls church) has more homes for sale and the home prices are more reasonable compare with what you can find in Montgomery county, MD. Both regions are close to DC. I guess the effect of DC on both regions are pretty much the same. I heard of many bad things about Moco, such as increasing property tax rate, sanctuary city controversy, weakening public education system, etc. I also hear good things about north Virginia, like good education qulity, etc. Then why are there more houses on market in north VA, and cheaper? Does this meaning that people are leaving VA. And more people are move in MoCo?

This may be the most ridiculous thing I have seen on DCUM today.

If living around sanctuary cities is a problem for you, OP, then by all means, save your money and move to NoVa.

Yup, MoCO giving sanctuary to Henry Sanchez, so he would rape his 14 year old classmate...multiple times in a school bathroom. I bet she would not be raped if she lived in Virginia.

Because VA doesn't have illegal immigrant HSers?

At least Virginia doesn't condone illegal immigrants or offer [sic] santuary. The entire United States has enough home grown criminals, don't need the vermin from other countries who arrive here illegally.

Last time I checked Arlington and Alexandria both have the same immigration policies that MoCo has. Fairfax is not considered a sanctuary county but has had its share of gang violence involving MS-13. Bottom line, both sides of the river have had their share of gang violence from undocumented immigrants.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.

PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair. I wish they could get in. But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas. I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was searching for house on sale using zillow, and noticed that north VA (fairfax, falls church) has more homes for sale and the home prices are more reasonable compare with what you can find in Montgomery county, MD. Both regions are close to DC. I guess the effect of DC on both regions are pretty much the same. I heard of many bad things about Moco, such as increasing property tax rate, sanctuary city controversy, weakening public education system, etc. I also hear good things about north Virginia, like good education qulity, etc. Then why are there more houses on market in north VA, and cheaper? Does this meaning that people are leaving VA. And more people are move in MoCo?

This may be the most ridiculous thing I have seen on DCUM today.

If living around sanctuary cities is a problem for you, OP, then by all means, save your money and move to NoVa.

Yup, MoCO giving sanctuary to Henry Sanchez, so he would rape his 14 year old classmate...multiple times in a school bathroom. I bet she would not be raped if she lived in Virginia.

Because VA doesn't have illegal immigrant HSers?

At least Virginia doesn't condone illegal immigrants or offer santuary. The entire United States has enough home grown criminals, don't need the vermin from other countries who arrive here illegally.