Any tips on Silver Spring/Takoma Park Elementary Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm the OP who posted the "uppity" comment. The back and forth here is an example of what non-immersion parents at Sligo Creek Elementary face all the time. There seems to be some kind of expectation from French parents that we neighborhood folks applied to get in the FI program and didn't get the choice lottery numbers. I actually CHOSE the neighborhood side of the school because I felt it was a better fit for my children and our family than the language side, in particular because of the extra science that the school offers them.

For the person looking at whether to move to our neighborhood, it's actually a great place -- walkable, lots of parks, close to the metro, nice families, and our teachers are good. Just be prepared for the parental discrimination that exists against neighborhood folks.

My kid goes to the non-immersion program at Rock Creek Forest and I could have written this post, word, for word. We face the exact same attitudes.

[Anonymous]

Again, I'm sorry you feel you are on the receiving end of these attitudes. But as an FI parent, I can assure you that we (the FI parents I know) don't actually think these things.