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[quote=Anonymous]Grew up in Bethesda and went to Burning Tree.  It is so upper middle class that any "violence" would be when kids are just being kids--maybe a bully here or there.
  
It was "diverse" in that we had some Ambassador's children or World Bank children but unless the kid was one of those, we had almost no other minorities or children learning English. It may have changed but unless the boundaries of the school have changed, it has absolutely no apartments and no townhouses within its boundaries so it really isn't gangland.  It was a good school when I went there.

However, you are in Bethesda and if you are feeling the pull of private schools, that is very common.  Most of my neighbors went to Burning Tree and I made lifelong friends who I kept up with through Pyle and into Whitman.  Whitman, however, was not the golden ticket that people (and real estate agents) seem to think it is.  After one sibling struggled at Whitman and I began to slip between the cracks (I was in every Honors class but was struggling with a newly diagnosed illness and the teachers didn't notice that I was no longer engaged or working on homework), my parents sent me to a private school starting in 10th grade.  I loved the private school but my friends were from DC, VA, Potomac, Rockville--all over.  I think that would have been a bummer as a little kid.  I could ride my bike to visit friends when I was little.  [/quote]

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