Cold Spring ES

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We just want a good school district and cozy, relatively tight knit neighborhood with other highly educated families who are not full of themselves

Pick a neighborhood with sidewalks and a good pool with a swim team. Summer swim really seems to pull a neighborhood together. ???????

You should also consider Fallsmead if you are looking for a neighborhood with sidewalks and a swim team. Feeds into Frost and Wootton

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12/18/2017 15:36

Subject: Cold Spring ES

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don't less to the swim team jihadists. There are plenty of things to do besides swim team, which is typically filled with maniacal parents competing over, and screaming about, whether Larla won her heat in the fly over other 9 year olds and will be on the A meet.

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12/19/2017 09:18

Subject: Cold Spring ES

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Anonymous wrote:don't less to the swim team jihadists. There are plenty of things to do besides swim team, which is typically filled with maniacal parents competing over, and screaming about, whether Larla won her heat in the fly over other 9 year olds and will be on the A meet.

You are so wrong about swimming team ! My son was only a beginner swimmer two years ago (2016), we signed up a summer team (Rockville Rays). Most parents there (if not all) were very friendly and a lot swimmers there were very competitive but also compassionate. My boy went to both B and A meet, and he got a lot help from teammates -- and eventually they made him to the divisional. He was not an HGC student but decided to apply for TPMS magnet program last year. I believe his confidence and motivation came from his experience in swimming competition.

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12/21/2017 12:56

Subject: Re:Cold Spring ES

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CSES is a wonderful school, the gifted center as well as the whole school. Our child went there as it was our home school and then also got into the GT program there. The 5th grade teacher is wonderful and she has been there for a very long time. She is very well respected and we were very happy with her, she teaches English and does some wonderful projects with the kids. My kid who is now in TPMS (STEM magnet) does less challenging projects in middle school as compared to what this teacher taught them in 5th grade. They do plenty of writing and reading projects and a wonderful Shakespeare play towards the end of the year where the kids and parents as well as former students participate and have a wonderful time.My child was certainly well prepared for TPMS magnet because of CSES.
Overall, I would give CSES a 10/10!

Regular family here. It is a wonderful school. The new principal is terrific. We love the small community feel and that the staff know all the children. The one 5th grade teacher above PP speaks of is really a gem. However, there is another teacher that moved from the regular program some years ago and is to be avoided. Of course, OP by the time your child gets there the teachers are unlikely to be the same.

I went to HGC at Cold Spring 20 years ago and I'm laughing now remembering that we all (entire school community) called the non GT class "regular." So weird and funny decades later. No relevant recent experience but back in the day I always wished I lived in the CSES neighborhood. I loved that all the kids roamed freely and there were parks and wooded areas/access to the creek. I remember lots of bike riding and outdoor play with my "regular" friends. If commutes weren't such a bitch, I'd happily live in this neighborhood and send my kids to Cold Spring.