Tilden MS

[Anonymous]

To all the people screaming avoid Tilden.

Well, Tilden feeds to WJ as does North Bethesda MS. The only 2 MS that feed to WJ so...

Well WJ is a great school.

How you get to avoid Tilden LOL is absurd.

[Anonymous]

Agree with pp (disclosure, our kids went to NB).

The reality is, MS sucks everywhere. Kids hormones going nuts, mcps curriculum for MS sucks, and the BO is just gross

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all the people screaming avoid Tilden.

Well, Tilden feeds to WJ as does North Bethesda MS. The only 2 MS that feed to WJ so...

Well WJ is a great school.

How you get to avoid Tilden LOL is absurd.

If any of the following are options for your family:
- home school
- private school
- virtual academy
- enter middle school lottery
- COSA
- move

Obviously these options don’t work for most but for anyone who can, it is worth considering. I would invest the money/time
resources in the middle school years because Tilden is so awful and then return to public for WJ

[Anonymous]

I can't tell you first hand comparison because I have kids in Tilden and not in other MS.

Based on what I hear from families, I think Tilden is surely a lower level than other middle schools in the area. I have family friends in Julius West and their kids are getting far better math education. May be due to AIM offered there.

If I had options, I will avoid Tilden.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can't tell you first hand comparison because I have kids in Tilden and not in other MS.

Based on what I hear from families, I think Tilden is surely a lower level than other middle schools in the area. I have family friends in Julius West and their kids are getting far better math education. May be due to AIM offered there.

If I had options, I will avoid Tilden.

Also no reading at Tilden. My friends’ kids throughout all regions of the county read books. Not at Tilden the past few years.

[Anonymous]

They must still offer AIM at Tilden. But agree they’ve gutted academics during Covid and not sure they’ve brought it back.

AP Gov was a huge adjustment as was APEX Bio. They’re not really doing the kids any favors by making things easy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tilden has overall very low academics instructions for students, students have hard time when going to WJ since they are not prepared. The new principal has no control over school, fights and swastika is common. Tilden drama is the best thing in school, Fall and spring plays. Kids love the program. Overall disappointed from experience in Tilden.

Bold part is true. If you don't care much about academics then Tilden is probably fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't tell you first hand comparison because I have kids in Tilden and not in other MS.

Based on what I hear from families, I think Tilden is surely a lower level than other middle schools in the area. I have family friends in Julius West and their kids are getting far better math education. May be due to AIM offered there.

If I had options, I will avoid Tilden.

Also no reading at Tilden. My friends’ kids throughout all regions of the county read books. Not at Tilden the past few years.

Interesting. My Tilden 8th grader has read books for their English class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't tell you first hand comparison because I have kids in Tilden and not in other MS.

Based on what I hear from families, I think Tilden is surely a lower level than other middle schools in the area. I have family friends in Julius West and their kids are getting far better math education. May be due to AIM offered there.

If I had options, I will avoid Tilden.

Also no reading at Tilden. My friends’ kids throughout all regions of the county read books. Not at Tilden the past few years.

Interesting. My Tilden 8th grader has read books for their English class.

Glad to hear that is changing. It didn’t happen in recent years and parents were angry (and some teachers). It leads to a major shock when the kids get to WJ

[Anonymous]

I have an 8th grader at Tilden. They have good friends and have adjusted to being back to regular school. That said, they are also the type to keep their head down and avoid drama. They don’t have tiktok and are therefore don’t know about every fight, viral video, etc. until later than most.
We have found teachers to be helpful and caring. Can’t say enough good things about Tilden Drama.
My only concern is how much they will be prepared for WJ. They have pulled solid grades for 3 years with minimal effort. I know mcps scaled back during covid/covid recovery but I am a bit worried about the adjustment to HS. This is probably normal though.

I think most of the above posts are the vocal minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They must still offer AIM at Tilden. But agree they’ve gutted academics during Covid and not sure they’ve brought it back.

AP Gov was a huge adjustment as was APEX Bio. They’re not really doing the kids any favors by making things easy.

They gutted HIGH too. AIM and HiGH may be technically offered but reality is they were watered down

One strength area though is technology electives including option to get tech credit in 8th grade. The tech teachers are a rare bright spot at Tilden

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have an 8th grader at Tilden. They have good friends and have adjusted to being back to regular school. That said, they are also the type to keep their head down and avoid drama. They don’t have tiktok and are therefore don’t know about every fight, viral video, etc. until later than most.
We have found teachers to be helpful and caring. Can’t say enough good things about Tilden Drama.
My only concern is how much they will be prepared for WJ. They have pulled solid grades for 3 years with minimal effort. I know mcps scaled back during covid/covid recovery but I am a bit worried about the adjustment to HS. This is probably normal though.

I think most of the above posts are the vocal minority.

I would agree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If NB and Tilden are so bad, how can WJ be so great?

Middle school sucks everywhere. Too many out of control hormones.

[Anonymous]

Another current Tilden parent and agree with 19:21.
We’ve been in the community since kindergarten and have watched many of our fellow parents take a major step back in parenting their young teens over the last few years.
Middle schoolers are always going to be a difficult group (in general), parents no longer parenting is only going to make that worse. And that is not on the school to fix, even though it falls on them.

[Anonymous]

Tilden is fine for families if they work with kids regularly and kids are not overly influenced by peer group. If not then other middle schools may be better.

Middle schools are generally weaker in most clusters. It's far easier to pick strong elementary and high schools.