How is Sligo Creek ES?

[tomoko528]

I live in Silver Spring near Sligo Creek and have a three year old daughter. It seems that ES assignment is Sligo Creek. How is the school, not the French immersion program?

[Anonymous]

I'm intereseted in this school as well

[Anonymous]

Lots of Hispanics.

[Anonymous]

After Sligo Creek's boundary was redrawn last year it became less diverse racially and socioeconomically and has therefore lost its focus school funding - the lower-income students from Takoma will now got to Takoma/Piney-Branch. The latest data is at -http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/02517.pdf

Others will have to comment on how that is impacting instruction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Hispanics.

I live in this neighborhood and am very surprised.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Hispanics.

A) How is this an appropriate or helpful response to a question about the rigor of a school? Are we supposed to assume the school or good or bad based on your response?

and B) How 11.7 % (per the 2011-2012 enrollment numbers) "Lots" of Hispanics?

[Anonymous]

I live right up the street from this school and know many parents who are very happy with it. On our street there are lots of young kids and we all plan to send our kids to the school when they are old enough. It gets one of the higher greatschools ratings (8 out of 10) in the area, particularly for the cost of the houses (you can get a decent updated SFH for 450-600k).

[Anonymous]

Our child attended SCES for 2 years. Kindergarten was great. First grade was TERRIBLE. So terrible in fact that we ended up moving because we did not want our child to return to SCES. We felt that the year was wasted. Inattentive teachers, unable to handle the classroom size (classroom size doubled when SCES lost Title 1 status). Lots of screaming by the teachers. Second grade is also terrible - lots of yelling, and unreliable teacher attendence (lots of substitutes). I would only recommend SCES if your child is already past 1st and 2nd grades. I did like the principal, though. Very responsive and approachable. And the gym teacher - he's fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our child attended SCES for 2 years. Kindergarten was great. First grade was TERRIBLE. So terrible in fact that we ended up moving because we did not want our child to return to SCES. We felt that the year was wasted. Inattentive teachers, unable to handle the classroom size (classroom size doubled when SCES lost Title 1 status). Lots of screaming by the teachers. Second grade is also terrible - lots of yelling, and unreliable teacher attendence (lots of substitutes). I would only recommend SCES if your child is already past 1st and 2nd grades. I did like the principal, though. Very responsive and approachable. And the gym teacher - he's fantastic.

I have the opposite view. Great teachers, horrific principal. I have (literally) until now never once heard anyone say anything good about the principal, and I've heard LOTS of people say how awful she is. She was so extremely unresponsive to an awful bullying situation that one of my friends pulled her DD from the school altogether. And there was one incident several years ago when she removed a fifth-grader from performing a solo at the music program so that she - the principal - could sing it. I kid you not.

I agree that the PE teacher is amazing.

[Anonymous]

We live near the school and have a kindergartener there. We've loved it so far. Our neighbor is in first grade and she has had a great two years also. There are about 10-15 other little kids on the street and we all either send our kids there or plan to. Like all Silver Spring areas, there is a mix of socioeconomic status. The majority of the houses that feed into the school, however, are $500-650k SFHs. Very involved PTA, smaller classes than I've heard about some other nearby schools, great newer building. We love the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Hispanics.

Nice. I'm one of them. So's my husband. I guess that makes our kid one, too (the horror!) Though I can't speak for the rest of the latinos who have the misfortune of being in your orbit, I can say that this trio is somehow living in a nice house--though of course, we are surrounded, absolutely surrounded, by presumably white and definitely liberal neighbors. Talk about scary.

Anyhoo. Not all that mad, but this is the kind of happy trash that crops up and I normally just walk away from. Today I feel like letting you know that--shocking and unpleasant as it may be to learn this--many hispanics have computers, read listservs and see your comments and then wonder to themselves, now which one of the supposedly affable and open-minded gringos that I live/work with every flipping day wrote THAT comment?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Hispanics.

Nice. I'm one of them. So's my husband. I guess that makes our kid one, too (the horror!) Though I can't speak for the rest of the latinos who have the misfortune of being in your orbit, I can say that this trio is somehow living in a nice house--though of course, we are surrounded, absolutely surrounded, by presumably white and definitely liberal neighbors. Talk about scary.

Anyhoo. Not all that mad, but this is the kind of happy trash that crops up and I normally just walk away from. Today I feel like letting you know that--shocking and unpleasant as it may be to learn this--many hispanics have computers, read listservs and see your comments and then wonder to themselves, now which one of the supposedly affable and open-minded gringos that I live/work with every flipping day wrote THAT comment?

WAY TO GO!

[Anonymous]

Don't forget you're on DCUM and sometimes people say ridiculous inflammatory things just to get people pissed off. The comment may have come from a 13 year old kid sitting at his computer in Wisconsin.....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Hispanics.

Nice. I'm one of them. So's my husband. I guess that makes our kid one, too (the horror!) Though I can't speak for the rest of the latinos who have the misfortune of being in your orbit, I can say that this trio is somehow living in a nice house--though of course, we are surrounded, absolutely surrounded, by presumably white and definitely liberal neighbors. Talk about scary.

Anyhoo. Not all that mad, but this is the kind of happy trash that crops up and I normally just walk away from. Today I feel like letting you know that--shocking and unpleasant as it may be to learn this--many hispanics have computers, read listservs and see your comments and then wonder to themselves, now which one of the supposedly affable and open-minded gringos that I live/work with every flipping day wrote THAT comment?

Hey, at least you are able to fit in a box.
Things are much worse for someone like me, who is always an "other". And if my opinion on matters is different from that of someone born in the US, I have to hear again and again the over coveted "this is how things are done in America. If you don't like it go back to your country".

[Anonymous]

lots of white trash too, and stupid type A parents, and mom that don't work and have nothing to do but pop out kids and talk about that only topic, babies and diapers, and, and, and...scary. Let alone the standoffish FI parents that think they are something else... Scary comment that one of the Hispanics. Come to senses people. We are all imperfect. SCES is fine (except for people that comments about Hispanics).