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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My almost 6th grader just had orientation for the fall at Silver Creek Middle School (not zoned for Bethesda, and maybe not the side of town you want), but here’s what their program is:

Advanced English - they supposedly differentiate within the class for higher and lower levels but I doubt that as I don’t see it happening in 5th grade 
SS is a version of ancient world - they have an honors SS course but you must be invited by the “district” and they use standardized testing and other data that you as a parent don’t know about. 
Math - tracked from 3rd grade - it appears if you are on level in math you’ll only be able to test out a bit by 7th grade though I am still unclear on that 
Foreign Lang - Spanish or French 
Electives - choice of orchestra, chorus, or band (full year), or a split year of digital art/regular art coupled with an engineering/ STEM something

OP, hear me. 
I just moved here from Bergen County and I’m also an educator in secondary education. This is a different animal here. The academics are decent but it’s very poorly run. Go private or stay in Westchester. We are already looking to move out of the DMV as it’s honestly just not a good fit for any of us.

Best of luck to you! [/quote]

First of all Silver Creek takes students from Chevy Chase and feeds to Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, so it’s odd to say to it’s not zoned for Bethesda.

Second of all, it’s sort of silly to compare Bergen county, which has something like 50 or 75 different school districts, each of which might have as little as one school and 160 kids, to Montgomery county, which is one of the largest districts in the country with over 200 schools and over 150,000 kids and say you think MCPS is just poorly run.  For better or worse, they are just entirely different things and things that might seem “poorly run” to you might actually be a function of those very different scales. 
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I think you misunderstood my point. OP asked about Middle school offerings in middle schools in the Bethesda area. I included offerings for SCMS which is not zoned for the western areas of Bethesda she indicated they were looking at. So I’m not sure how I’m technically wrong.

I was also not comparing Bergen to MCPS, but rather that Bergen and Westchester have many similarities that will not be replicated in any way in MCPS due to size and the way it runs as a result of its size. This is important for OP to know if she’s expecting to get the same product. And maybe OP isn’t expecting it to be the same, not wants the same.  But I do think it’s worth stating so OP moves with clear eyes and expectations.

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Nice attempt at cleanup but nowhere did OP indicate she was looking at the “western areas of Bethesda” and if you wanted to indicate that the are differences between small districts like Bergen county and large districts like MCPS there are surely more helpful and thoughtful ways to do so than to say in MCPS academics are fine but it’s poorly run. [/quote]

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