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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There won't be any Bethesda residents attending Rosemary Hills in the next few years - will be all Chevy Chase, Silver Spring, and some Kensington. Regardless, I wouldn'y recommend it. We're going private b/c we want to avoid RH. Crowded, HUGE, and we get some pretty disturbing reports from neighbors who have or do send their kids there. [/quote]

Lots of inaccuracies above from the PP - most importantly that RH is a problem. Check the archives, go to the school, ask other parents. Our child has had a great experience at RHPS - great teachers, great school environment, and a very active and enthusiastic parent community. The school is large in terms of grade cohort but not in terms of overall size; all the Bethesda area elementaries are in the 500-700 kid size, and I'd rather have 600 kids in K-2 than 600 kids in K-5 - there are no big kid bullies or age-inappropriate influences for the little ones. It is slightly more racially/ethnically/socioeconomically diverse than the other Bethesda elementaries, but fwiw all the parents I meet are yuppie professionals (not that this is necessarily a good thing!) DCUM seems to attract one particular poster who is constantly denigrating RHPS and whining about the bus routes, I'm guessing the previous post is hers.[/quote]

Listen - I don't think anyone has ever denigrated RH itself, other than a couple people in this thread.  What people have  denigrated is the inconvenience that some in the Bethesda community are faced with in sending their kids much further away than just about anyone else in this part of the county; to say the least of splitting up siblings prematurely.  Though one may appreciate some of the comments you have about RH, to others the RH situation is a bad deal.   [/quote]

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