Silver Springs schools?

[Anonymous]

At your age with such a young family you should be thinking as far west and north as you can go in Montgomery County.

That gets you Germantown. Have you seen Germantown lately, PP? And have you ever actually seen Mexico City or Lagos? Shut up.

[Anonymous]

Ah the troll again. 20910 and 20901.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If public school is important, then scratch SS off your list period. And I am born and raised from SS. It's a shit hole. Don't listen to all of the hippy posters on here who talk about how diverse or international or wonderful or la la la it is. It's not. Move farther west in Montgomery County if a decent school is important to you.

FYI, for "decent" read "white" or "affluent," because that's what this poster means. This is actually one of her less offensive posts.

I disagree PP. The poster is talking school quality. Either the quality of the school is high or low, regardless of race. If there is a high quality school that isn't, as you say, not the Poster before you, "white" or "affluent," I believe that school would be recognized as such.

[Anonymous]

I am quoting a substitute who has been in many schools for the past few years. His favorite school in Silver Spring, including students, principal and teachers is hands down Highland View. He said he feels the positive energy from the moment he enters the building until it's time to leave. People are genuinely nice, children are mostly very well behaved.

[Anonymous]

Highland View has great rep and Indian spring is a great neighborhood. Other close by desirable neighborhoods include Woodmoor, south four corners, and north four corners.

[Anonymous]

I have two kids, one in east county and one in west county middle schools.

I am shocked at the stories my DC in the west county school brings home about the elitist and entitled attitude of the kids in his school. I can't wait to get him out of there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two kids, one in east county and one in west county middle schools.

I am shocked at the stories my DC in the west county school brings home about the elitist and entitled attitude of the kids in his school. I can't wait to get him out of there.

This, more than any other reason informed my choice to send my kid to silver spring schools. We're in for east silver spring, aka Mexico City apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have two kids, one in east county and one in west county middle schools.

I am shocked at the stories my DC in the west county school brings home about the elitist and entitled attitude of the kids in his school. I can't wait to get him out of there.

But the "Silver Spring is Lagos + Mexico City!" poster said to go as far west AND north as possible -- i.e., upcounty. So Gaithersburg, Germantown, Clarksburg, Damascus. Which I think is kind of funny, as an upcounty resident, because the "Silver Spring is Lagos + Mexico City!" poster probably would think the same of Gaithersburg, Germantown, and Clarksburg, if the PP ever came here. And Damascus, as we all know, is populated by illiterate hicks. (I'm being sarcastic.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park would have lots of similar families to yours, and has good schools throughout, Highland View in Silver Spring is an excellent elementary feeding into a pretty good middle school. High school is less strong (Northwood). Forest Knolls is the same trajectory as Highland view.Woodside has an excellent middle elementary school in Woodlin, a good high school with Einstein, but I am not sure of the middle school.
Lots of people on this forum will tell you to go to Bethesda, they will bad mouth Silver Spring, etc. They will tell you about the one diverse family they know in their bethesda school, and how everyone is nice to them. But if you want a supportive environment with lots of other families who look like yours, your best bet is Takoma Park or Silver Spring.

Don't you think that this family would grow Bethesda's diversity? Wouldn't you be in favor of more diversity in Bethesda instead of discouraging it?

Do you mean, should they put school diversity on their children's backs, while they go off to work in an environment of their choosing? No, that is not a choice I would make for my children.

[Anonymous]

We've had kids at Forest Knolls, Pine Crest, Takoma Park ES, & Piney Branch. Have had good experiences at all of them. Friends who have children at Sligo Creek, Oakland Terrace, Flora Mills, and TP Middle School & SS International have reported very positive things about them.

We love Silver Spring!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park would have lots of similar families to yours, and has good schools throughout, Highland View in Silver Spring is an excellent elementary feeding into a pretty good middle school. High school is less strong (Northwood). Forest Knolls is the same trajectory as Highland view.Woodside has an excellent middle elementary school in Woodlin, a good high school with Einstein, but I am not sure of the middle school.
Lots of people on this forum will tell you to go to Bethesda, they will bad mouth Silver Spring, etc. They will tell you about the one diverse family they know in their bethesda school, and how everyone is nice to them. But if you want a supportive environment with lots of other families who look like yours, your best bet is Takoma Park or Silver Spring.

Don't you think that this family would grow Bethesda's diversity? Wouldn't you be in favor of more diversity in Bethesda instead of discouraging it?

So it is the kids' job to BE the diversity?

No.

[Anonymous]

20802 zoned for Flora Singer is great.

[Anonymous]

PP means 20902, btw.

[Anonymous]

Yeah diversity really sucks. The AA kid in my son's class whose dad is an IRS counsel and the Hispanic boy whose parents run a successful small business or the other one whose parents both work for Discovery really drag down the class.

[Anonymous]

OP, have you looked into 20853 or 20851 zip codes?

The Rockville HS cluster is very nice. Out off 26 high schools in the county, Rockville is the second smallest, even though it is in the heart of the county. Because it is so small, it is very community oriented. Homes in these zip codes are also affordable.

The commute to SS would be an easy one for your DH and there are better schools (I taught in Silver Spring for 14 years and I would not send my own kids to school there mainly because of the consortium aka: "school choice")

Another option would be Olney (Sherwood schools) for us proximity to silver spring and schools.