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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just dropped by from the Maryland forum, and this is fascinating to me. All the talk in Silver Spring is that you have to move to Bethesda by middle school or your child will be irreparably harmed by gangs or underachievers or whatever. Anxious parents probably always think the grass is greener elsewhere.[/quote]

There are a few posters who jump into every thread about SS and start bashing it. Of course SS isn't a fit for everyone -- what is? But there's a lot of garbage thrown around. One can simply post "How do you like Woodside?" or "is this overpriced for Four Corners?" and someone will immediately jump in with "schools suck! gangs on University Blvd!" and not bother to answer the question (not that they have anything to add, anyway).[/quote]

It sounds like the same thing that happens when people mention DCPS.  Some people just insist on painting DC public schools with the same broad brush.  For instance, my children attend out IB school, Oyster.  We love the school, and we're surrounded by neighborhood children who also attend the Oyster. We're able to walk our kids to school.  No issues with neighborhood crime or blight.  We also wouldn't have a school with higher test scores if we moved to Chevy Chase, Maryland and sent our children to Rock Creek Forest Elemtary (MoCo's flagship immersion school).  We have it good at Oyster, but some people believe the ridiculous stereotype that every DCPS school is failing.  Oh well.[/quote]

A dozen elementary schools in DC are indeed on a par with the better suburban elementary schools. But without test-in or GT middle school programs, like those in Fairfax, Arlington and MoCo, advanced students get shortchanged in DCPS from 6th grade up. The best DCPC options (Latin, Basis) offer comparatively weak facilities, and there is no guarantee of admission for any particular family. Wilson and Walls can't hold a candle to the strongest suburban high school programs.

It all goes downhill after ES.

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