Did your GPS take you there on the icc/200? It's a toll road so it'll add up driving there and back. Though, if it's off-peak hours, it'll be the cheaper rate. Police are always on it too.

People are rude and stuck up (teachers and students), workload is incredibly heavy, and it’s really nothing “special”, they don’t provide a unique experience that gives people advantages. Its only prestigious because it’s mostly populated by wealthy people.

I was gonna say essentially the same. I graduated from Hammond like 10 years ago. I'm sure the demographic information is archived somewhere but our school was well diversified and it made my time there as a minority way better academically and socially than if it was any other way. During my 4 years a fight would break out once every week in the first year, once a month the year after, and then once a quarter the years after. My grades went from really great to good enough over the years. Correlation does not equal causation.

At the end of the day every student made their own success. My graduating class had 2 students accepted to MIT (one declined due to cost but still works for NASA), 1 Stanford, a dozen or more Ivy leaguers, and a ton of UMD, UMBC, and Towson grads in that order. A lot of students also ended up in HCC and transferred to other schools later to save on costs which is a great choice and one I wish I took.

My advice would be don't sweat the details. Be involved with your kid. Get to know their friends. They have the most influence on who they'll turn out to be.

I graduated from Atholton...class of 96...it was ok. Then again, I wasn't too keen on HS back then. Lol. But it was a blue ribbon school back in those days...

Please elaborate 🫣

River Hill is hot garbage

I like sawsedge and hot peeppers.

(Giardiniera if there are any other Chicago transplants here...)

Elkridge furnace inn and Kings contrivance

Hahaha touché. That’s actually something I ended up being really proud of them for though because when kids got pregnant at other schools and had to drop out they were able to come to WL and finish their education which I thought was 🔥🔥🔥

Plus those babies were real cute… 🤷🏻‍♀️

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As a WLHS alum I deny your claim as the least worst of the worst, and I would like to propose WL as the least worst of the worst 😂

But honestly I’d rather Hammond or WL over river hill any day… based off diversity, work ethic, racism, drug use, etc. from what I’ve heard from friends that went there… no amount of money or good grades makes it more appealing to me. I’d probably root for centennial or atholton maybe.

I hope the people in the SUV are OK.

Had three cars pass me on 32 last night around 930, clearly racing, doing at least 110 given how fast they passed me. From your description, either they were the same ones and went to 29 next, or there are just a lot street racers in this area.

Also "moron speeds" is an entirely accurate description. IDGAF about normal speeding, until you hit moron speeds.

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I'll have to check it out!

Dok Khao

rn chiklin tiki masala, pizzaman sells a chicken masala pizza its so good

My bias opinion is that River Hill, Centennial, Marriott ridge, Mt Hebron (Western Hoco) will likely to stay at the top for years. That being say every high school in Howard county are good. The dropouts rate is very low.

Don’t! They’ll reproduce

I second this, and definitely get the half-baked blondie for dessert. Or not, but it is amazing.

Mine is peeperoni.

Fuck street racers.

Ship's in Catonsville?

Best/worst for high schools is a crapshoot. And if you look at rankings, the less diverse (and more white) a school is, the higher it’ll rank. It has nothing to do with the quality of the school, it’s just that wealthy children do better and therefore their high school ranks higher.

Find yourself a good community, trust that a HCPSS education will empower your kid to reach whatever their next level is, and worry more about what kind of kid you raise than how prestigious their HS is.

My wife and I were in the same position while buying a house and finally decided to quit looking at HS rankings when we noticed the “good” ones were not in communities we really wanted to be in (no mix of housing types). We love our community in KC and are sure that our daughter will get a fantastic education when she gets there. Plus, who knows what the schools will look like when it comes time (in 16 years for us). The new HS is gonna throw a wrench in everything and who knows what other changes are going to occur.

No just a two person Date I should’ve been clear

There is a small house on my court that is rented and occupied by at least 12 people (all affiliated with a landscape company - logos on some trucks). They have enough cars to clog up the entire court, including a few that are definitely street racers (none that match your descriptions - Toyota/Scion things here). All of the street racers are slammed, straight-piped (or outfitted with fartcans), and riding on stretched tires. They do donuts around the grass circle in the court like they’re winding up and then blast down our 6-houses-long court at ridiculous speeds; we can hear them racing up and down Oakland Mills Rd.

I do not like these neighbors. I will admit to some schadenfreude when I saw copious amounts of white smoke billowing from one of the cars (hood and tailpipe!) while they were “tuning” it recently…