Gang Activity in Montgomery County Shcools?

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Anonymous wrote:It must be exhausting to think you must go to Yale, live in Bethesda, and have kids at Whitman to be happy. Good grief. I’ll keep you in my prayers.

Not just happy, worthy. It’s staggering that people think this way.

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If that is the measure of success, I'll stay stupid and happy here in my Woodside Park dump with my SLAC degree and my little $200K job. And I guess my Einstein kid is doomed by virtue of breathing the same air as Latinos every day.

I get it that some people prefer to be the big fish in a small bowl opposed to below average in a large fancy aquarium. I just don’t get why they can’t admit that their tank smells because it doesn’t have a filtration system. Congrats on being the top of the pile in silver spring, color me unimpressed.

Nobody cares whether you were impressed. Which is the point.

Yes you do, hence you rambling off your resume. You know you live in the meh part of town but you need(!) people to know you live in whitest upper middle class part with a higher end fed equivalent salary with your way above average for the local area education. You need them to know that you don’t mind the Latinos with all that you have, you’re betting and confident your kids won’t end up like them. Heady gamble but make sure the forum knows that the anonymous poster isn’t one of the poor 70% of parents at Einstein but one of the middle class 30%.



You care deeply

Um, no, some of are just clearing up blatant misconceptions about SS that you are trying REALLY HARD to convince yourself are true. Might want to examine why you care so deeply. You are really invested in this.

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Anonymous wrote:It must be exhausting to think you must go to Yale, live in Bethesda, and have kids at Whitman to be happy. Good grief. I’ll keep you in my prayers.

Not just happy, worthy. It’s staggering that people think this way.

+1

If that is the measure of success, I'll stay stupid and happy here in my Woodside Park dump with my SLAC degree and my little $200K job. And I guess my Einstein kid is doomed by virtue of breathing the same air as Latinos every day.

I get it that some people prefer to be the big fish in a small bowl opposed to below average in a large fancy aquarium. I just don’t get why they can’t admit that their tank smells because it doesn’t have a filtration system. Congrats on being the top of the pile in silver spring, color me unimpressed.

Nobody cares whether you were impressed. Which is the point.

Yes you do, hence you rambling off your resume. You know you live in the meh part of town but you need(!) people to know you live in whitest upper middle class part with a higher end fed equivalent salary with your way above average for the local area education. You need them to know that you don’t mind the Latinos with all that you have, you’re betting and confident your kids won’t end up like them. Heady gamble but make sure the forum knows that the anonymous poster isn’t one of the poor 70% of parents at Einstein but one of the middle class 30%.



You care deeply

That is projection. I don't think the poster thinks for a second about what anybody from BCC thinks of DCC. But if people are going to openly attack and disparage DCC and Silver Spring, and spread misinformation on a public forum where people actually come to learn something, then yes, of course we will speak up and set the record straight. And that isn't so much because we care what you personally think, (reading your hateful posts, I wouldn't waste my time with you. You're not worth it) but we care what is being said publicly about our neighborhood and our schools.

Silver Spring is not "lesser than" in relation to Bethesda. Neither is it "greater than." It's not a contest. Life and the world in general are so much bigger than this. Let's move on and enjoy our lives.

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Anonymous wrote:It must be exhausting to think you must go to Yale, live in Bethesda, and have kids at Whitman to be happy. Good grief. I’ll keep you in my prayers.

Not just happy, worthy. It’s staggering that people think this way.

+1

If that is the measure of success, I'll stay stupid and happy here in my Woodside Park dump with my SLAC degree and my little $200K job. And I guess my Einstein kid is doomed by virtue of breathing the same air as Latinos every day.

I get it that some people prefer to be the big fish in a small bowl opposed to below average in a large fancy aquarium. I just don’t get why they can’t admit that their tank smells because it doesn’t have a filtration system. Congrats on being the top of the pile in silver spring, color me unimpressed.

Just curious, because it's the holiday season: do you have any friends? How is this need to be superior to others (and have them acknowledge it!) compatible with genuine relationships?

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Who is the dense one when you are in denial and the demographic trends of an area? Which school is majority white? Which school has a shrinking FRAMs rate? Which school doesn’t have a high percentage of the kids which have been on FRAMs at one point or another? The dense part is your denial, but keep on keeping on, fat dumb and happy is the American way

MCPS has 25 high schools. Six were majority white in 2016-2017: Whitman (67.5%), B-CC (57.6%), Damascus (57.4%), Walter Johnson (54.5%), Churchill (53.6%), Poolesville (51.4%).

The rest of us, including the rest of us who aren't white, will just have to make do somehow at the other 19 MCPS high schools, I guess.

(It's FARMs, by the way, not FRAMs.)

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Within 5 years, there will no longer be a majority white in any school in the MCPS system. I moved from Silver Spring to Bethesda and then back to Silver Spring. We sold out house in Bethesda to several Latino families. We heard through our old neighbors that there are 4 families living in there!! I know 2 families in my current SS neighborhood moved to Bethesda and are sharing living space with others because that is where they work.
I was just waking through downtown Bethesda and GASP saw many more brown people than I used to see 10 years ago.
Each school had its issues but one thing is for sure, the education received is the SAME. The difference is the peer group. your kids will have access to a variety of peer groups in each type of school. Pick your poison: entitled, douche bag friends or unmotivated troublemakers. The good news is that there are good kids in all schools.
FWIW, my oldest much prefers SS vs Bethesda and he has a good group of kind, motivated friends. Things aren't perfect but we are all happier here than in Bethesda. So much more down to earth - you just can't argue that.

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Anonymous wrote:Within 5 years, there will no longer be a majority white in any school in the MCPS system. I moved from Silver Spring to Bethesda and then back to Silver Spring. We sold out house in Bethesda to several Latino families. We heard through our old neighbors that there are 4 families living in there!! I know 2 families in my current SS neighborhood moved to Bethesda and are sharing living space with others because that is where they work.
I was just waking through downtown Bethesda and GASP saw many more brown people than I used to see 10 years ago.
Each school had its issues but one thing is for sure, the education received is the SAME. The difference is the peer group. your kids will have access to a variety of peer groups in each type of school. Pick your poison: entitled, douche bag friends or unmotivated troublemakers. The good news is that there are good kids in all schools.
FWIW, my oldest much prefers SS vs Bethesda and he has a good group of kind, motivated friends. Things aren't perfect but we are all happier here than in Bethesda. So much more down to earth - you just can't argue that.

I love it! People creating their own affordable housing!

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I don’t live in SS but it is undeniably the up and coming, cool area to live. I’m surprised whenever I see people here mocking it. The people buying there are going to see massive housing value increases.

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Funny thing about trolling is that it is so easy to be affective. Undercut people’s insecurities and watch the pithy responses roll in. Now granted the responses will say that they don’t care but me thinks they protest too much. The people who really don’t care don’t bother.

I guess the core of the entire thread is a debate on if the DCC and northern parts of MoCo are trending up or down. If they are quality places currently is of course completely subjective based on people’s standards but the data is clear that poverty and Immigration are exploding in certain areas while wealth is concentrating in increasingly select areas. Now if these are harbingers for even worse declines in QOL? Most historical trends would point to yes similar to the African American exodus out of the south that ravaged many northern neighborhoods when their poverty mixed with retaliatory social policy by their neighbors and displaced whites. While there are some major differences in trends since this boom coincides with a rebaselining of real estate prices and a shift back to urban from suburban, the same social backlash seems consistent if one looks at the vitriol and animosity directed towards immigrants currently.

If I had to guess as poverty moves in and is simultaneously displaced from DC proper, new concentrationed areas of poverty will emerge. The trends may be masked by all real estate prices rising but I would watch the trends very closely. There are historical points where influxes of massive amounts of new poor people cause too many problems historically tied to poverty that people move out. It will happen gradually

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PP, this is the Maryland Public Schools forum, not the Montgomery County Real Estate Forum.

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I get it that some people prefer to be the big fish in a small bowl opposed to below average in a large fancy aquarium. I just don’t get why they can’t admit that their tank smells because it doesn’t have a filtration system. Congrats on being the top of the pile in silver spring, color me unimpressed.

Your tank isn't that impression, PP. Why don't you care enough to send your children to private? Those are the REALLY fancy tanks, but I guess people like you just don't care about education, and are fine with a mediocre one-size-fits-all middle of the road tank.

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Explain to me why group results are important to you.

They reflect the level of education of the student body of a given school.

And the impact of that on you and your child is...?

Just because my child may not be impacted, it doesn't mean that group results are not relevant. Let's not be selfish here.

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I get it that some people prefer to be the big fish in a small bowl opposed to below average in a large fancy aquarium. I just don’t get why they can’t admit that their tank smells because it doesn’t have a filtration system. Congrats on being the top of the pile in silver spring, color me unimpressed.

Your tank isn't that impression, PP. Why don't you care enough to send your children to private? Those are the REALLY fancy tanks, but I guess people like you just don't care about education, and are fine with a mediocre one-size-fits-all middle of the road tank.

A lot of assumptions about details never shared. What tank are you talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:Funny thing about trolling is that it is so easy to be affective. Undercut people’s insecurities and watch the pithy responses roll in. Now granted the responses will say that they don’t care but me thinks they protest too much. The people who really don’t care don’t bother.

I guess the core of the entire thread is a debate on if the DCC and northern parts of MoCo are trending up or down. If they are quality places currently is of course completely subjective based on people’s standards but the data is clear that poverty and Immigration are exploding in certain areas while wealth is concentrating in increasingly select areas. Now if these are harbingers for even worse declines in QOL? Most historical trends would point to yes similar to the African American exodus out of the south that ravaged many northern neighborhoods when their poverty mixed with retaliatory social policy by their neighbors and displaced whites. While there are some major differences in trends since this boom coincides with a rebaselining of real estate prices and a shift back to urban from suburban, the same social backlash seems consistent if one looks at the vitriol and animosity directed towards immigrants currently.

If I had to guess as poverty moves in and is simultaneously displaced from DC proper, new concentrationed areas of poverty will emerge. The trends may be masked by all real estate prices rising but I would watch the trends very closely. There are historical points where influxes of massive amounts of new poor people cause too many problems historically tied to poverty that people move out. It will happen gradually

The schools are the Canary in the coal mine

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Poverty is not "moving in" to Silver Spring. My house was worth $200k 15 years ago and is now worth $600k. My neighbors used to be electricians and roofers and now they're lawyers and scientists.

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Anonymous wrote:Poverty is not "moving in" to Silver Spring. My house was worth $200k 15 years ago and is now worth $600k. My neighbors used to be electricians and roofers and now they're lawyers and scientists.

I feel like this is happening in Rockville, too, just in the last 5 years alone.