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[quote=Anonymous]I had 2 children go through JDS.  We started in K.  K and first were wonderful.  Warm, caring, lots of fun activities woven into the day.  2nd started to get a bit tougher and became more academic.  In 3rd, they start to level Hebrew and math--support, on grade, advanced.  That holds for 4th and 5th but the kids can and do move between the label.  There is a lot of parent engagement, many kids belong to the same shuls or play on the same sports teams on Sundays.

Judiacs are good and bad.  They are good in that they are taught by people who really understand the holidays, speak Hebrew, and can teach the parsha.  They are bad in that the judiacs teachers are not trained teachers which means classroom management during that time is chaos.  Judiacs is 1/2 every day.  However, I'm not sure the judiacs teachers at Milton are any better trained. I don't like the way JDS teaches the parsha.  Kids learn the story but they don't learn the pasuk, millah, or shoresh so they can't just pick up the torah and understand in Hebrew what is going on in the story.

There are all levels of observance in the school but the school asks for all school activities you adhere to the highest level of observance so no child is left out.  That means kosher food at the bday parties, no parties on shabbat, no mass emails sent out on shabbat etc.

The middle school is a mess.  The level of rigor is far below the county public schools.  There are 8 periods and 3 or 4 of them are judiacs.  But most of the kids have been together since elem. so parents still know each other and the kids have fun.  It's a good place to go to MS--friendly and minimal bullying.

My daughter starts HS in the fall.  I haven't signed the contract yet.  I'm really on the fence.  If HS is anything like MS, I want her to go to public.  But I hear that the HS is the shining star.

I withdrew my son in 3rd.  The school is not able to support any sort of SN.  They say they can and the do try but the execution just fails.  My son has been thriving in MCPS.  I always thought both of my kids would stay at JDS from K-12.  But as they've grown and changed, it's no longer the right environment for them.  Like you, I purchased my house based on school location.

For me that meant purchasing in Rockville.  Luckily the public school that we are zoned for are well regarded.[/quote]

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