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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gaithersburg is my home school. It is very diverse in every way. The kids in my neighborhood are all friends from ES, all advanced academically, and all took rigorous classes and got into good colleges. There may be issues among kids who live in apartment complexes and have bad history together, but generally those groups don’t cross the academic lines.[/quote]

Well this is my concern. DD may attend for one year and has learning differences so will be in general ed population..[/quote]

My kids went to a nearby school and we know plenty of kids who went to Gaithersburg and not all of whom took super advanced classes. Fights I have heard of are among kids who know each other not random picking on kids who are not already involved.  This is the same as other schools. There is plenty of news about other Montgomery county schools having issues with fights. I do not know your kid’s  special needs requirements so hard to know if GH will have the right resources.  If you contact GH and they do not have the correct resources you can apply for a cosa to a school that had these resources. And, for the record, sending your kid to a ‘W’ school does not mean no fights, correct special ed resources or no bullying.  And, I know loads of parents who choose to send their kids to schools with similar profiles to Gaithersburg including myself whose kids are doing great. Not sure why you think we are all sending our kids to private schools rather than racially and economically diverse schools.  The west county area of Montgomery county is very proud of our diverse schools and all the opportunities they provide our kids.  The city of Gaithersburg is especially involved in helping kids and provides all types of resources. It is a great area overall but yes with some pockets of concentrated poverty that do need more help. If you do not live in one of those very struggling areas, you can avoid the issues concentrated poverty can bring. If you do need to live in one of those areas since that is what you can afford, there are lots of resources to help you out from food pantries to free youth athletic  programs to after school youth centers. [/quote]

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