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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Bethesda and live now in NWDC. My siblings all stayed in Bethesda and Chevy Chase and we all have kids around the same age. Range is from 2nd grade to sophomore in high school- there are a total of 17 cousins.

Schools -- academically elementaries seem about the same. We have a bit smaller classes and less freaked out by 2.0 but the kids seem to be learning the same things. Everyone totally happy with their choices.

Middle-- Deal wins hands down. The curriculum is much more robust than Whitman and BCC feeders.

HS-- this is where the differences are. Wilson CAN be on par with the other schools but has much more urban problems which is to be expected being urban and school demographic make up. For this reason we have one at Wilson and one private. That works for us. My siblings are shocked one kid choose Wilson but he is doing extremely well and definitely academically on par with his Whitman/BCC cousins. It takes a lot of work though. I feel like I have to push and stay on top of Wilson all the time. It doesn't seem to come naturally to them to push kids like the MoCo schools do.

Living-- my kids are way more adventurous "city" kids compared to their cousins. I think there is a big difference in how I let my kids take the bus/metro and how my siblings do in Bethesda. [/quote]

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