Least conservative/least MAGA of the top-ranked schools in MCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hi everyone,

My husband and I are planning our move to Montgomery County. We have two daughters, aged three and five, and a son aged 2. Currently, we are looking at the different top-ranked schools in the county, but we want to make sure to move into an area that is not too conservative or too MAGA. Based on what I have seen here, it appears WJ and BCC might be the best bet? If anyone else has other ideas, it would be great to hear from you all. Or if you could also say which places to avoid (be it even elementary schools), that would be helpful. Thanks.

Asking for the least conservative place in MCPS is like asking for the coldest place in Antarctica. Yes, suburbs closer to DC are much more strongly blue. But, honestly, you'll be fine wherever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MCPS has 26 high school that all lean left. Not sure where you are coming from, but that is a ridiculous question for this area.

+1

[Anonymous]

Perhaps kids of Republican households could wear red tee shirts and kids of Democrat households could wear Blue tee shirts.

[Anonymous]

OP:


Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different.

[Anonymous]

You’ll be in for quite a shock coming from Florida! It’s NOTHING like FL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’ll be in for quite a shock coming from Florida! It’s NOTHING like FL!

Including the weather/lolsob

[Anonymous]

In my experience, Op if you are a “moderate” be prepared for a lot of ultra liberal types. They can be very judgy of if don’t agree with their perspectives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP:


Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different.

Are you saying the high ranked schools ultra conservative?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP:


Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different.

Are you saying the high ranked schools ultra conservative?

Quite a few are, yes. More Romney/Rubio-esque type republicans but who’ve become MAGAified more recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Montgomery County close in is VERY liberal. Your concern is comical given the nature of Bethesda.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP:


Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different.

I don’t think anyone is offended. But I will agree with others, this isn’t going to be a problem. We live in a very conservative enclave within B-CCs boundaries and almost every family in our neighborhood sends their kids to private catholic schools. The few public school kids in our overall conservative neighborhood are not from MAGA families by any stretch of the imagination.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi everyone,

My husband and I are planning our move to Montgomery County. We have two daughters, aged three and five, and a son aged 2. Currently, we are looking at the different top-ranked schools in the county, but we want to make sure to move into an area that is not too conservative or too MAGA. Based on what I have seen here, it appears WJ and BCC might be the best bet? If anyone else has other ideas, it would be great to hear from you all. Or if you could also say which places to avoid (be it even elementary schools), that would be helpful. Thanks.

Superintendent is MAGA.

Ignore this troll.

Actually, Taylor is very DOGE with all the large changes he is pushing through quickly. He doesn't listen to the community and having heard him in action with staff, he seems rather tyrannical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi everyone,

My husband and I are planning our move to Montgomery County. We have two daughters, aged three and five, and a son aged 2. Currently, we are looking at the different top-ranked schools in the county, but we want to make sure to move into an area that is not too conservative or too MAGA. Based on what I have seen here, it appears WJ and BCC might be the best bet? If anyone else has other ideas, it would be great to hear from you all. Or if you could also say which places to avoid (be it even elementary schools), that would be helpful. Thanks.

Superintendent is MAGA.

Ignore this troll.

Actually, Taylor is very DOGE with all the large changes he is pushing through quickly. He doesn't listen to the community and having heard him in action with staff, he seems rather tyrannical.

DOGE is not political so much as it is simply tech bro stupidity.

[Anonymous]

I mean, I guess there are more conservatives per capita around Poolesville and Damascus, but nowhere would you find a MAGA majority in a high school.

We are at WJ and love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP:


Thank you very much for all your comments. Seems I have caused some offense; that was not my intention. I don’t have an issue with multiple perspectives. However, we’re moving in from a part of Florida where there’s absolutely correlation between certain high ranked schools and ultra conservative environments. Good to know the general profile in Montgomery County even for top ranked schools will be quite different.

Welcome to the area, OP.

Don't worry about causing offense. Arguing is DCUM's stock in trade.

Just to give you a hint at what's to come: my kid at Westland MS (in the BCC high school cluster) had summer reading assignments that were always centered around either bullying in school, and/or being LGBTQ+. They welcomed a lesbian soccer player for an assembly. The Pride club was very active. Now she's at BCC and knows a lot of non-binary, gender-fluid kids. She sits next to a MAGA-curious boy in AP US History and she enjoys debating him. Before Trump 2.0, some families sued MCPS for its readings of LGBTQ+ books in elementary classrooms, and that lawsuit went all the way to the Supreme Court and MCPS lost. Now parents have the right to opt their kids out of classroom readings they don't like. We do have some conservative families in this county: long-time Americans who are often deeply religious, and many immigrants who come from patriarchal and socially conservative countries, who are shocked to discover that homosexuality or gender fluidity can be discussed in primary education. That would never happen where they come from. But even taken together, they represent a small minority of the residents of this solidly liberal region.

So. We're a fun bunch here.