Anyone thinking of Green Acres School in "North Bethesda?"

[Anonymous]

Yes, BUT just because someone has a different opinion or experience than you, it does not make it a rumor.

[Anonymous]

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By the way, I actually asked the admission director why they changed it to "North Bethesda" instead of drawing my own conclusions based on speculation and negativity. She told me it was so people from Northwest DC and Bethesda, two primary markets, didn't think the school was near downtown Rockville. I prefer "Rockville" but at least her explanation makes sense.

Why would being near downtown Rockville be bad?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
By the way, I actually asked the admission director why they changed it to "North Bethesda" instead of drawing my own conclusions based on speculation and negativity. She told me it was so people from Northwest DC and Bethesda, two primary markets, didn't think the school was near downtown Rockville. I prefer "Rockville" but at least her explanation makes sense.

Why would being near downtown Rockville be bad?

Because it sounds far and inconvenient if you live in DC or Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Kind of a bring the JAPS along gently kind of school.

[Anonymous]

I would love to be considering Green Acres. Its exactly the place I would love to send my child - but the cost is out of our reach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would love to be considering Green Acres. Its exactly the place I would love to send my child - but the cost is out of our reach.

You don't know until you are there. It really seems all granola and everything, but it is a really mean place to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kind of a bring the JAPS along gently kind of school.

It's 2013, not 1985. (And it was a slur in 1985.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would love to be considering Green Acres. Its exactly the place I would love to send my child - but the cost is out of our reach.

You don't know until you are there. It really seems all granola and everything, but it is a really mean place to be.

What is your involvement with the school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, BUT just because someone has a different opinion or experience than you, it does not make it a rumor.

I agree, but the problem is that there is no way on this board to tell what's real and what's not. Your point is a good one, but in practical terms it means that you need to visit or at least talk to the school. You may not agree with them, but at least it'd be a real opinion instead of (a lot of) this crazy trolling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"F" word poster here. Oops. I apologize for the language. I have never heard a Green Acres teacher use that word (though some might in private). I am just a lowly parent, but I am also sure that parents at other schools would NEVER do that.

Okay, okay, let me be serious for one minute. I think it would be a shame if that one word caused you to ignore the point I was making. It seems like it's too easy to say, "Uh-oh, she used the F word, so she loses total credibility," without considering what the point was. New DCUM topic: "Does anybody in YOUR child's school say the F-word?" First post: "Yes, but nobody younger than second grade!"

I admit I should have chosen my words more wisely. I am sorry. But I think grownups, even those who don't use such R-rated language, just have to be capable of forming opinions more carefully than from such a source where everybody posts anonymously and nothing can actually be verified. This is like the TMZ of independent school news but without all the careful reporting. If that one poster really will go to public school just because one harebrained fool (that'd be me) used one naughty word, I wonder if the naughty word might not have been the real problem.

This whole place is a nuthouse. There are people who are earnest and sincere and just want information, but it's a nuthouse still. Does anybody really believe this is a good source of accurate information and not mostly ax-grinding and rumor-mongering? If your children used DCUM as a source in a research paper, you'd be totally cheesed off [chiefly British] at the school. By the way, I hadda look that one up. I usually just say "fucking crazy."

I'm actually a nice person. I'm sorry the craziness got to me. Really. I hope you'll still consider what I had to say. And think about where you can get decent information.

You are not a Green Acres parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
By the way, I actually asked the admission director why they changed it to "North Bethesda" instead of drawing my own conclusions based on speculation and negativity. She told me it was so people from Northwest DC and Bethesda, two primary markets, didn't think the school was near downtown Rockville. I prefer "Rockville" but at least her explanation makes sense.

Why would being near downtown Rockville be bad?

Because it sounds far and inconvenient if you live in DC or Bethesda?

No dog in this fight and not associated with Green Acres....but you all make it sound like Green Acres created (or made up) the North Bethesda label. They didn't - they are located in Bethesda - NOT Rockville. Rockville is an incorporated city and the city limits do not start until North of Montrose Road. Just south of Montrose are Bethesda and Kensington - just not what most people think of when they hear Bethesda and Kensington. I grew up in this area and Rockville has always had its southern border at Montrose. I currently live in Bethesda (inside the Beltway near NIH) and sometimes even our address gets populated with a North Bethesda label.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
By the way, I actually asked the admission director why they changed it to "North Bethesda" instead of drawing my own conclusions based on speculation and negativity. She told me it was so people from Northwest DC and Bethesda, two primary markets, didn't think the school was near downtown Rockville. I prefer "Rockville" but at least her explanation makes sense.

Why would being near downtown Rockville be bad?

Because it sounds far and inconvenient if you live in DC or Bethesda?

No dog in this fight and not associated with Green Acres....but you all make it sound like Green Acres created (or made up) the North Bethesda label. They didn't - they are located in Bethesda - NOT Rockville. Rockville is an incorporated city and the city limits do not start until North of Montrose Road. Just south of Montrose are Bethesda and Kensington - just not what most people think of when they hear Bethesda and Kensington. I grew up in this area and Rockville has always had its southern border at Montrose. I currently live in Bethesda (inside the Beltway near NIH) and sometimes even our address gets populated with a North Bethesda label.

Just south of Montrose is North Bethesda. Which is not Bethesda, any more than North Potomac is Potomac.

I suppose someday if North Bethesda and North Potomac become the prosperous places to be, we'll start talking about Bethesda/South Bethesda and Potomac/South Potomac?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kind of a bring the JAPS along gently kind of school.

It's 2013, not 1985. (And it was a slur in 1985.)

Has not changed the attitude, however.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
By the way, I actually asked the admission director why they changed it to "North Bethesda" instead of drawing my own conclusions based on speculation and negativity. She told me it was so people from Northwest DC and Bethesda, two primary markets, didn't think the school was near downtown Rockville. I prefer "Rockville" but at least her explanation makes sense.

Why would being near downtown Rockville be bad?

Because it sounds far and inconvenient if you live in DC or Bethesda?

No dog in this fight and not associated with Green Acres....but you all make it sound like Green Acres created (or made up) the North Bethesda label. They didn't - they are located in Bethesda - NOT Rockville. Rockville is an incorporated city and the city limits do not start until North of Montrose Road. Just south of Montrose are Bethesda and Kensington - just not what most people think of when they hear Bethesda and Kensington. I grew up in this area and Rockville has always had its southern border at Montrose. I currently live in Bethesda (inside the Beltway near NIH) and sometimes even our address gets populated with a North Bethesda label.

Just south of Montrose is North Bethesda. Which is not Bethesda, any more than North Potomac is Potomac.

I suppose someday if North Bethesda and North Potomac become the prosperous places to be, we'll start talking about Bethesda/South Bethesda and Potomac/South Potomac?

Back in the 70's, it DID used to just be Bethesda - not North Bethesda. And I am pretty sure North Potomac didn't exist then either...

[Anonymous]

in either case - Green Acres didn't make it up AND it was never Rockville.