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Another family considering moving to MoCo for the schools, but must stay east - recommendations?
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Anonymous
What a simpleton with such silly, stupid, and senseless speculation. It's the idiot poster who loves the term troll and snarky....idiot. |
Anonymous
I haven't seen that kind of craziness in SS. Sure, there are crazy people everywhere, but I haven't seen that kind of craziness. |
Anonymous
Actually, I've never used the term troll or snarky. As for speculation, this is not speculation. This entire forum is full of SS parents with discussions of their magnet concerns. No need to be so defensive. |
Anonymous
| Liar |
Anonymous
Teenager. C'mon, don't you have anything better to do? |
Anonymous
| This teenager is calling this example for an adult a liar. Go back to your mindless passion of reading DCUM boards. Teenagers have much better and more intelligent activities than your preoccupation ... occupation. |
Anonymous
| 23:16 here. Wow, I missed a lot of this discussion. Very informative and kind of disturbing... OP, you asked where we were in PG before we moved. We were in Berwyn Heights. The elementary school there is not bad but I have a middle school child and Greenbelt Middle was not going to work for us. The French Immersion School sounds good. Everyone seems to like it. If you can do that, then it might not be worth moving just yet. I do miss PG county- it's a different world over here in Mont. Co. Some good, some not so good. But we really could not be happier with Rosemary Hills. Our older child went to private schools (we never tried Berwyn Heights Elementary) and I really prefer Rosemary Hills to any of the experiences she had in her expensive schools. |
Anonymous
| PP 23:16 here again. BTW, we are also a multi-racial family and RH is not quite as diverse as I would like. Guess you can't have everything though... |
Anonymous
| Hi, this is the "red herring" poster. I feel a bit piled on here, and kind of misunderstood. Nevertheless, the person who posted the simpleton and liar posts isn't me. Someone hijacked the thread. |
Anonymous
| To the OP - We live in Woodside and think it's a great neighborhood. We moved to Woodside for its proximity to the metro, walkability to downtown Silver Spring and because Woodlin ES is a good school (can't say from personal experience yet though since we don't have school aged kids). |
Anonymous
Hi, this is the "red herring" poster. I feel a bit piled on here, and kind of misunderstood. Nevertheless, the person who posted the simpleton and liar posts isn't me. Someone hijacked the thread.
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Anonymous
| I guess this thread is done. This time done in by a self-professed teenager with nothing else to do at 9:00 on Saturday night. Some of us parents are trapped at home waiting to pick up our kids, which sometimes precludes a social life. But I'm mystified why the teenager would prefer to be here on a Saturday night. I wish Jeff would weed some of these people out. |
Anonymous
| It sounds like you're the one with the issues. I'm sure your children and husband have pointed out you DCUM addiction. You spend your life chastising imaginary teenagers on DCUM and looking for some DCUM almighty saviour to restore weed opinions that differ from yours. Get a life. Listen to your kids. |
Anonymous
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OP here. To those of you who offered suggestions on schools & neighborhoods, thank you very much. I wish there were a way to delete some of the ridiculous arguments, because it makes it hard to find the helpful posts which get lost in the mix.
To PP 23:16: thanks again for your feedback. I'm also looking at a couple private schools as backups, in case we A) dont "win" the french immersion school lottery, and B) can't get it together to sell our house and relocate to MoCo before next fall. We're looking at Friends Community School, which I really love but is expensive and would be a horrible commute / logistical situation wrt to our jobs; and a catholic school near our house which is convenient and relatively cheap and better than our local public school. We're not remotely Catholic, though.  But honestly, I think I'd rather move to MoCo than pay for private school just for the privilege of continuing to live in our not-so-great neighborhood. That's pretty great to hear that you've preferred RHES to the private schools your older child attended.
I'm curious, what aspects of PG do you miss? I do like my down-to-earth neighbors a lot - there are a lot of really interesting and friendly people here who I would miss a lot. At the same time, there also a lot of people I have pretty much nothing in common with, so I wouldn't miss that. You (I think it was you) mentioned that RHES isn't that racially diverse ...that's funny since don't they call themselves the Rainbow School? Is it really not so diverse any more? To the PP who mentioned that MoCo's little secret is that all the best schools are overcrowded ... interesting point. I hadn't realized that, but once you say it, it seems like it could well be true. But italso seems to me that this is only true in the close in burbs, right? It seems like if we were willing to move out to Colesvillle or Ashton or thereabouts, there are some great schools that are not overcrowded like the close in ones. But that just is a really high cost for me, in terms of my personal happiness, as I mentioned before ... To the PP who suggesed Woodside / Woodlin: yes, that's another area that I've been looking at. What's the deal with Woodlin, is it a Title I school? It seems like somehow they manage to have smaller class sizes than other nearby schools (like RHES)? Thanks, R |
Anonymous
| We lived in Montgomery County and could not get out fast enough. We have been MUCH happier with Fairfax. |