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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, you can't decide you can only live in the ritiziest part of a ritzy area and then complain it's too cliquey and people drive expensive SUVs.

Bethesda Elementary will be just as SUV-driving as upper NW.

Maybe Cabin John, or Silver Spring.
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+1 Several of the neighborhoods you are considering are the same, demographically and culturally, as the neighborhood you dislike. You can't flee one UMC community full of lobbyists and private sector lawyers for another UMC community full of lobbyists and private sector lawyers and think that the culture will be any different. It won't.

If you truly want something different, you need to look in a community with more socioeconomic diversity, even if racial diversity isn't what you want.

As for being warned off Takoma Park and Silver Spring schools, if your child gets into a 2E program they will be bussed to that program, which may well be in Silver Spring!

Decide what you actually want, and then talk to people with real-world experience in those schools. [/quote]

I mostly agree with this. If OP is looking for something different from the cliquey Lexus SUV driving groups she's with in NW DC she's picked the wrong neighborhoods. I mean I was just at a shopping center near my child's school and was looking at all the same BMW, Mercedes, Volvo SUVS. About 20 in neat rows. DC has many friends in NW DC due to a travel sport and the families are exactly the same as the same types of families you would find in Bethesda and Chevy Chase. Why would you expect them to be any different? Same education, level of wealth and same types of jobs.

There is no way a child will have to bus to Silver Spring for a 2E program.
I think the 2E program for ES for that area is for Barnsley in Rockville, North Bethesda in Bethesda for MS, and Walter Johnson in Bethesda for HS.

Agree Takoma and Silver Spring schools are great and the communities are more accepting. [/quote]

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