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I am aware that they can go to middle school magnets - my child attended one.  What I'm saying is that both middle school magnets are in Silver Spring and the commute from Bethesda or Potomac sucks.  When dc attended, he was the only child from his home middle school in the magnet program.  There are tons of kids from the Silver Spring area who attend these schools but only a smattering of kids from the W schools.  As I said in my previous post (see above) the curriculum in the magnet programs is far more advanced than the curriculum in a "W" middle school.[/quote]

I'm sure that the commute from Bethesda or Potomac to the middle school magnets is lousy. But that is a consequence of choosing to live in Bethesda or Potomac and go to a middle school magnet. If you can afford to live in Bethesda or Potomac, you can almost certainly afford to live closer to the middle school magnets in Silver Spring. In contrast, most of the people who live close to the middle school magnets in Silver Spring cannot afford to live in Bethesda or Potomac. And their alternative to the middle-school magnets is not the Bethesda/Potomac home school, either. Nor do they have the option of choosing a long commute in order to go to a Bethesda/Potomac school.

If you wonder why people in the rest of the county often think of people who live in Bethesda/Potomac as entitled -- well, your post is a good example.

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Are you implying that everyone who lives in Bethesda/Potomac is rich?  If you stretched your budget to buy a house for $500K or $600K in one of these neighborhoods a few years ago you are not rich by Mont. County standards.  Selling that house and paying all the taxes and fees to buy a house in SS would be beyond the means of most of the people I know.  Perhaps I should have planned for the eventuality that my child would not be adequately served in his home school and would be accepted into and want to attend a middle school magnet program.  I didn't have a crystal ball then.  If my child then does not get into a high school magnet like Blair would you suggest I am "rich" enough to then sell my home in SS (pay those taxes, fees and realtor fees again) and move back to Bethesda?  Think before you throw words like "entitled" around.  There is a lot of reverse snobbery on this forum.  I wouldn't care except when it is used to dismiss the concerns I might have for my child's education.[/quote]

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