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Einstein?  Compare its test scores to Sherwood's. There is no comparison academically.  
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Welcome back sherwood booster. You're wrong on many levels, but it doesn't make sense arguing on every little item. And I won't generalize about Silver Spring, since it is a huge area, but concentrate on the active, thriving neighborhoods that feed into Einstein and Blair.

Yes, there are more lower income communities that feed into these schools. Mostly that is because as you get closer to the core, you get denser and denser populations, and more lower-income housing. There is nothing particularly shocking about this. Silver Spring borders Washington. Sherwood is 20 miles away.

So once upon a time you lived somewhere in Silver Spring, and growing up you seem to have had a bad elementary school experience. Clearly you have issues with people who don't look like you. I feel sorry for you, but I'm guessing you get that a lot. Today, if you go into any one of the neighborhood schools, you will see sometimes crowded classrooms full of kids who live in these neighborhoods. We go to a Fourth of July parade a couple of neighborhoods away, and there are usually 1000 kids under the age of 12 there. All shapes, colors, sizes, languages, etc. Kids here play in their front yards, pickup baseball and street hockey are common, there is a neighborhood block party monthly spring-fall. We have neighbors who will pick up our kids in a pinch, we can go away on vacation and call upon a dozen people to keep an eye on our house. This isn't unique to Silver Spring, but it highlights how the community works.

And schools. So clearly your experience with Blair is old. The magnet programs (yes, there are 2, not 1) are not a walled off school within a school. There are kids in our neighborhood who went magnet, and who didn't. Those that didn't still could take magnet level classes. They went to Stanford, UNC, Duke, Penn, top level state schools, and SLACs. A bunch went to UMD. A bunch went to Montgomery College...so basically, it's the same list for virtually every MoCo HS.

I know you're not going to hide in your wine cellar in Brookville and stop bashing Silver Spring. Yes, the higher population density leads to higher crime rates. Yes, my 1,500 SF home cost $650,000. I know I could buy 1/2 acre and 3 car garage elsewhere for that. Yes, there are kids who go to my zoned HS who will not go to college. Yes, my local park doesn't have 15 perfectly manicured soccer fields. I have to drive 20 minutes for my huge local indoor pool. But I - like the majority of the families who live here - enjoy living in Silver Spring. And while once upon a time things may have been different, the way they are today work well for a lot of similarly minded people.[/quote]

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