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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Noting that there’s a new principal next year, Somerset is great due to its size and community feel. It’s BCC, but I personally think BCC is a better school with better offerings (eg IB program)[/quote]

Yes, Somerset is like 350 kids now down from 650, due to the exodus under the previous principal and also the boundary change which sent many of their kids to westbrook. The new principal (who just started) seems amazing and actually the whole leadership team has changed over (so they have a new counselor and a new AP). I think given problems under old principal as far as bullying, meanness, etc. they are really prioritizing SEL and DEI now more than is typical for other schools in the area.  [/quote]

Very interesting.  I was coming on here to say

Bethesda ES
Westland MS (Awesome!)
B-CC (Excellent outcomes, excellent for mix-and-match AP, Honors, ADV and IB, better with the new administration)

We went to Somerset ES under the principal who appears to be leaving while friends went to Bethesda ES.  She was not an effective leader and the parent group is filled with a bunch of difficult to corral social climbing moms.  Friends at Bethesda ES raved about the inclusiveness and academic support, diversity of students and parents and how the larger school allowed for more social movement than what we experienced at Somerset ES.

HTH[/quote]

Somerset parent here. I hate to say this but I don't disagree with your sense of how it was. I do feel that the vibe has changed for the better over the years though... Part of this is the enrollment drop (the leadership was so bad that they lost like 25 or 30% of of their students to private during the pandemic and I think a lot of the social climbers were among them). I found it startlingly stepfordy before but somehow a little more simpatico now. Of course this could be just luck of the draw in terms of the different classes my three kids have had over the years....  a few snobby parents in a given year can make the overall feeling chilly... And a few nice ones can do the opposite. Or maybe the younger gen of parents are less status driven... Dunno, but whatever is going on it feels a lot warmer. 
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