The problem with low SES middle schools -unfair!

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Anonymous wrote:This is also a pretty good "lesson learned" and warning to anyone who is making real estate decisions based only on elementary schools. If you don't like your middle and high school options, that's almost a bigger deal than K-5, where you have a lot more control over your kid's peers and where the education is fairly standardized.

Easy for you to say. Not everyone can afford the good school districts or private. That is the sadly the problem that many motivated families with a lower income face in this county. The Haves live on the west, the have nots live on the east. And those lucky ones in the east with $$$ will move to Howard County or send their kids to private. What do the rest of us do? In all honesty - the issue is the behavioral problems that the east school face. They need to take these kids out and send them to a remedial school like they used to have back in the 70's/80's. Win-win for everyone.

Massively oversimplified. There are many, many "haves" in the eastern part of the county who don't like the culture of affluenza and competitive child-rearing so common in Bethesda.

Yes, but I bet their kids are going to private schools. Not to any of the middle schools mentioned earlier.

Then who do you think all these kids in our high schools are? Blair, Einstein, even Wheaton High School are not majority FARMS. If "everybody" goes private then where are all these kids coming from? Unless your definition of "haves" is the 1% (which would be nuts).

Why not move to PG county - similar caliber schools w/ cheaper housing price?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is also a pretty good "lesson learned" and warning to anyone who is making real estate decisions based only on elementary schools. If you don't like your middle and high school options, that's almost a bigger deal than K-5, where you have a lot more control over your kid's peers and where the education is fairly standardized.

Easy for you to say. Not everyone can afford the good school districts or private. That is the sadly the problem that many motivated families with a lower income face in this county. The Haves live on the west, the have nots live on the east. And those lucky ones in the east with $$$ will move to Howard County or send their kids to private. What do the rest of us do? In all honesty - the issue is the behavioral problems that the east school face. They need to take these kids out and send them to a remedial school like they used to have back in the 70's/80's. Win-win for everyone.

Massively oversimplified. There are many, many "haves" in the eastern part of the county who don't like the culture of affluenza and competitive child-rearing so common in Bethesda.

This.

I wish people would realize that some of us in east and mid-county made a conscious choice NOT to live in the western portion of the county...and it's really okay.

There are some upper middle class who made the choice to life east for more house or the desire to be richest of poors instead of the poorest of rich but they are very very few "haves" EOTP.

The kids that fill the east county schools are the remaining middle class that is rapidly being replaced by not middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:This is also a pretty good "lesson learned" and warning to anyone who is making real estate decisions based only on elementary schools. If you don't like your middle and high school options, that's almost a bigger deal than K-5, where you have a lot more control over your kid's peers and where the education is fairly standardized.

Easy for you to say. Not everyone can afford the good school districts or private. That is the sadly the problem that many motivated families with a lower income face in this county. The Haves live on the west, the have nots live on the east. And those lucky ones in the east with $$$ will move to Howard County or send their kids to private. What do the rest of us do? In all honesty - the issue is the behavioral problems that the east school face. They need to take these kids out and send them to a remedial school like they used to have back in the 70's/80's. Win-win for everyone.

Massively oversimplified. There are many, many "haves" in the eastern part of the county who don't like the culture of affluenza and competitive child-rearing so common in Bethesda.

This.

I wish people would realize that some of us in east and mid-county made a conscious choice NOT to live in the western portion of the county...and it's really okay.

There are some upper middle class who made the choice to life east for more house or the desire to be richest of poors instead of the poorest of rich but they are very very few "haves" EOTP.

The kids that fill the east county schools are the remaining middle class that is rapidly being replaced by not middle class.

Oh please. There are plenty of whites and middle class (and I mean DCUM middle class not rest of the world) buying and staying in these areas that feed into Einstein and Blair. Plenty of houses continually selling for $450-650K.