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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There can older kids smoking and hanging out in the field shared with the rev center, skate park & basketball courts after school. Our son was came home asking about the N word and blunts :roll:  It was a littler earlier for that conversation than we were prepared for. The school it’s self is well run but there are constant reminders of the maple Ave vibe.  [/quote]

Welcome, OP! If you didn't figure this out, this PP is racist.

The boundary for PBES (and TPES, the school for younger kids) is shaped in such a way that about half the kids come from single family homes (about 1/3 of those pretty expensive homes in historic downtown Takoma Park or near Sligo Creek, and about  2/3 from a variety of regular homes) and the other half come from (mostly high rise) apartments, mostly concentrated along Maple Avenue. The demographics of these groups are such that the SFH kids are diverse, but largely white, and the high-rise kids are almost all black and brown, many from immigrant families. So when PP says that they feel "constant reminders of the Maple Ave vibe" and associates that with bad behavior, what they are saying is that black and brown kids are loud and trouble causing...they are not talking about the kids who live up the hill from the community center/school along Maple Ave.

It's weird when someone from Takoma Park talks like this, because it overall a very welcoming and diverse community, but even here, there are troubling associations along socio-economic status and ethnicity. Does behavior fall along those lines? I would say no. The most I have observed is that kids often walk home to the apartments in larger groups...because that's how high rise living density works...and that seems louder because the groups are louder. Also, kids in groups behave differently that kids in pairs: that's not about where they live, it's about the way social groups work. Also, the kids hanging out at the field after school would almost definitely be from the apartment area, because that's the field close to their houses. But I bet you if you go to Spring Park or somewhere else you'll also see kids behaving badly. It's just...how kids are.

PBES is great. I can't answer your question very thoroughly because we did do the CES, but 3rd grade was great and I know a lot of the kids who didn't do CES and they are great, too. The teachers are pretty engaged and many have been there a long time. Compacted math is excellent. The community is nice...and PP's rude comments are not common (guess an anonymous board brings out the worst in some).

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