Principal Phillip Gainous found a directive from MCPS Superintendent Jerry Weast to be unrealistic in mandating that SAT scores increase to above 1100 for students with scores between 800 and 990.
This school year, Blair senior Diana Alvarez has only once met with her guidance counselor, who juggles the files of over 300 other Blazers. Meanwhile, senior Amanda Good, who attends The Holton-Arms School, an all-girls private school in Bethesda with a 38:1 student-counselor ratio, has met many times with her college counselor, whom Good says is readily available.
Honor code not the answer for cheating crisis
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