Best "overall" DCC trios?

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Anonymous wrote:North Kensington is still mostly in the 550k range and you have the choice between Wheaton and Grosvenor metro stations. Schools are Rock View ES/Newport Mill MS/Einstein HS

I’d recommend broadening it out even more in Wheaton, accessible to the Wheaton metro. It’s easy to find parking at the Wheaton metro county garage. I live in the area and know people with kids at various schools, all happy (including us). I think anywhere in the Einstein cluster would be good. Some of the schools feed into Northwood, which I know less about other than it’s getting a new building sometime in the next few years. Wheaton HS has a biomedical magnet program. All good options.

Wheaton is a GORGEOUS school. Wow. Agree that Wheaton is a great choice - multiple programs for virtually any interest.

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Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

It seems like someone's trying really hard to throw shade on these places, but yes unfortunately things like this happen at all schools. I heard about a knife fight in the parking lot of Churchill last year. It's sad but true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

[Anonymous]

That child's mother was constantly being called for the actions of her misbehaving child. She never did a thing about it. It was recommended to her that she get her child mental health counseling. She did nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

It seems like someone's trying really hard to throw shade on these places, but yes unfortunately things like this happen at all schools. I heard about a knife fight in the parking lot of Churchill last year. It's sad but true.

I remember that "police said a 17-year-old student from Walt Whitman High School came to Winston Churchill High School and attacked a female Churchill student with a knife in the Montgomery County school’s parking lot.".

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/students-sheltering-in-place-winston-churchill-high-school-kid-with-knife-maryland/65-3206e6b3-ffc4-49cd-93a8-7460e4fde361

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

Funny. I saw the whole tape too. And saw ESS administrators standing by AND participating in the torment of a FIVE YEAR OLD. Also, how are you glossing over the fact that this child managed to walk off the school property?!? What kind of supervision - or lack there of - led to that? OP, so your research. Lots of great ES pyramids in the DCC - many of them already posted. Avoid ESS at all costs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

Funny. I saw the whole tape too. And saw ESS administrators standing by AND participating in the torment of a FIVE YEAR OLD. Also, how are you glossing over the fact that this child managed to walk off the school property?!? What kind of supervision - or lack there of - led to that? OP, so your research. Lots of great ES pyramids in the DCC - many of them already posted. Avoid ESS at all costs.

Kids walk off school property. It's a thing that can happen. They followed the kid and called police, which is the policy they're supposed to follow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That child's mother was constantly being called for the actions of her misbehaving child. She never did a thing about it. It was recommended to her that she get her child mental health counseling. She did nothing.

the school has a legal obligation to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

Funny. I saw the whole tape too. And saw ESS administrators standing by AND participating in the torment of a FIVE YEAR OLD. Also, how are you glossing over the fact that this child managed to walk off the school property?!? What kind of supervision - or lack there of - led to that? OP, so your research. Lots of great ES pyramids in the DCC - many of them already posted. Avoid ESS at all costs.

Kids walk off school property. It's a thing that can happen. They followed the kid and called police, which is the policy they're supposed to follow.

DP. As the mom of a SN student, that story was terrible and indeed I would never send my kid there. Calling the police was one thing. Berating the child was abusive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

Funny. I saw the whole tape too. And saw ESS administrators standing by AND participating in the torment of a FIVE YEAR OLD. Also, how are you glossing over the fact that this child managed to walk off the school property?!? What kind of supervision - or lack there of - led to that? OP, so your research. Lots of great ES pyramids in the DCC - many of them already posted. Avoid ESS at all costs.

Kids walk off school property. It's a thing that can happen. They followed the kid and called police, which is the policy they're supposed to follow.

A five year old child walking off school property is unacceptable. Will say it again: UNACCEPTABLE.

OP, many awesome DCC schools - my kids have been very happy and successful at two ES that route to Einstein. Please, do not send your child to ESS. Do your research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

+1 Having (sadly) watched the whole tape, the AP failed to protect the child from the verbal abuse by the police, but she did not herself engage in any abuse. Standing on the sidelines of police violence is inappropriate, but let's keep the discussion within the realm of facts.

The principal was offsite at a meeting. A child left campus and was followed the entire way by the assistant principal, who was mandated by MCPS policy to call the police rather than trying to physically apprehend the eloping child. Then, the police picked the child up down the road (again, with the AP right there) and the police verbally abused the child for more than an hour. For a lot of that time, the child's mother was in the room participating in the abuse.

The bad guys in this story are the police, who did not face repercussions for their actions. The AP and the mother were both bystanders, and again should have stepped in, but PP"s narrative is just not truthful.

The AP deserved to lose her job for standing by, even if the mother was on board, but that was the extent of it.

Funny. I saw the whole tape too. And saw ESS administrators standing by AND participating in the torment of a FIVE YEAR OLD. Also, how are you glossing over the fact that this child managed to walk off the school property?!? What kind of supervision - or lack there of - led to that? OP, so your research. Lots of great ES pyramids in the DCC - many of them already posted. Avoid ESS at all costs.

Kids walk off school property. It's a thing that can happen. They followed the kid and called police, which is the policy they're supposed to follow.

A five year old child walking off school property is unacceptable. Will say it again: UNACCEPTABLE.

OP, many awesome DCC schools - my kids have been very happy and successful at two ES that route to Einstein. Please, do not send your child to ESS. Do your research.

Yes, it's unacceptable. But staff isn't allowed to physically restrain a kid without special training (don't know if they had CPI staff available) and can't lock - or even block - the doors.

I've worked with several eloping K-3 kids. I'd run ahead of them when they got close to the property line to redirect them, and remind them that we'd have to call the police if they left. It always worked.

But if a kid slips out without being seen, that won't work. And if you think 2 or 3 staffers can keep an eye on each and every kid in a classroom you're dreaming. MCPS isn't running a prison system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:East Silver Spring elementary school also feeds to Takoma Park MS and Blair. It's a smaller school than TPES/PBES.

OP here. We haven't seen a single house in ESS elementary, so maybe that area is out of our budget?

How about this one? https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8407-Galveston-Rd-Silver-Spring-MD-20910/37283393_zpid/?

OP AVOID East Silver Spring at ALL costs. A five year old was neglected by the school staff, managed to wander of campus, and then verbally berated by the principal and staff and tormented by the police. It was all over the news. Absolutely horrific incident. Do not send your children to this school.

That was indeed a horrible incident, but no, it was not the principal, it was an AP, and she no longer works there. The police officers involved were the worst offenders here, and their behavior is not the fault of the school. ESS is a great school and community despite this isolated, terrible incident.

It seems like someone's trying really hard to throw shade on these places, but yes unfortunately things like this happen at all schools. I heard about a knife fight in the parking lot of Churchill last year. It's sad but true.

There is a big difference though. At Blair, for example, there are actual stabbings, not just showing a knife:
"Montgomery Blair High School: a 16-year old Blair student stabbed a peer during an altercation in the school’s parking lot."
https://theblackandwhite.net/71009/news/campus-attacks-test-mcps-safety-protocols/

There was a murder incident by Whitman students, but that was a special case. The kids were from the Greentree Group Home in Bethesda.
https://theblackandwhite.net/71161/news/three-whitman-students-charged-with-murder-after-bethesda-killing/

[Anonymous]

DCUM always comes back to Blair and the Ws.