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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty similar till HS. Whitman and BCC definitely better than Wilson as it is today. [/quote]

Yeah, I don't know how you could argue otherwise.

We may stay in DC yet still ourselves, but I think objectively it is hard to argue any potential benefit to slightly smaller classes in ES isn't outweighed by a more robust curriculum and excellent fellow students by high school.

People can argue about how they love Wilson and one kid went to Yale one year, but it is just not the same learning environment as the test-in schools in MCPS, or Whitman or BCC.[/quote]

For the sorts of people we are talking about in this specific thread (not "in DCPS in general"), the kinds of families who would entertain a move to a Bethesda neighborhood that feeds to Whitman .... for this subset of Wilson teens:

1.  more than one teen, one year was admitted to an Ivy.  It's common.  On my street alone, there's a Columbia U. and a Northwestern.    Next block is a William and Mary and a Washington U., pre-med.    My "block" is, I am certain, the kind of address OP is considering.  I'll leave it at that.

2.  These kids find each other at Wilson and take the same classes with each other and do the same extracurriculars and stay in the academies in large part.   Good or bad, there is for the moment still that school-within-a-school option at Wilson.

I do think that MCPS curriculum at the gen ed schools is more robust than the DCPS HS curriculum.    I do think your kids won't be chosen to go to Blair Magnet, aka the "test-in" MCPS school.  They just won't.   Neither will mine.   [/quote]

What are the upsides to living in far corner upper NW DC compared to close-in Bethesda? Honestly curious to hear from someone who has high-school aged kids. Is it cheaper real estate? Why is it better? It is certainly not more "urban" than living in Bethesda, if you are honest with yourself about what is urban. I ask because I would love to stay in DC, like the OP, but just have trouble justifying it. Though I guess if you compare it to living 20 miles out it makes a difference in terms of quality of life, but how is it different than living a mile over the DC border. I have a feeling this is what the OP is getting at.[/quote]

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