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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had never heard of that school and am surprised there are highly regarded so close to Wheaton.  A good alternative for low income families [/quote]

Your post is really offensive and not a low income school.  [/quote]

Well it isn’t an affluent school. It is a Wheaton school that has more SFHs than the avg for that part of the county even if if they run on the cheaper side. But the problem remains with decent elementary schools in marginal areas (as always) is the next level and the level after that when they combine with the not so decent schools that the local parents were happy to avoid initially. [/quote]

DP, but you're wrong on most counts.  OTES is in Silver Spring, and pretty much all of its students live in SS or Kensington.  Plenty of OTES parents happily send their kids to DCC middle and high schools.

It's not affluent in the way that W-elementary feeders are, for sure.  For some of us, that's part of the appeal.[/quote]

Because this area doesn't have a town-based local government like New England does, you can argue until the cows come home about whether any particular area is Wheaton or Kensington or Silver Spring.  You can go by the zip code, but they don't mean anything in terms of local government, and if you write Silver Spring, 20902 or Wheaton, 20902, your letter will arrive at the same house.  Kensington actually has a Town of Kensington with municipal boundaries, but no one in the actual town is currently assigned to OTES.  Plenty of people in the delivery zone for 20895 are.  These local designations mean almost nothing around here.  That is why southern Rockville can be re-branded as North Bethesda, etc.  Although the City of Rockville also has municipal boundaries, I don't know many people who actually know where they are.  So arguing about what is Wheaton and what is Kensington and what is Silver Spring is kind of silly.  [/quote]

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