Montgomery Blair Magnet

CountingDown
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 22:15:26 +0000

2collegewego, if you have kids who attend Churchill, Wootton, Whitman, W-J or B-CC, your kid can get a fabulous education at the local HS. However, one is paying a BIG premium to live in those neighborhoods. If we lived in the Whitman cluster, I think S2 would have gotten a terrific education and that his college outcomes would have been similar to what he achieved coming out of the IB. OTOH, Whitman was the locus of “The Overachievers” so I am not sure the stress level would have been any lower than a magnet!

As a matter of financial reality, we couldn’t afford the Whitman cluster, much less college on top of that.

We also liked the diversity (ethnic and socioeconomic) of the high schools the guys attended. Are the magnets a perfect solution? No, but it was the best option for our family, and I am pretty darned thankful the public schools offer this opportunity.