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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be surprised if anyone living in Bethesda proper (not "North Bethesda" or "Greater Bethesda") would send their kid to a DCPS.  Not hating on DCPS or anything, but one is clearly better than the other.  Now, if we're talking PG County - yeah, if I can weasel my way into a DC school, and I know D.C. isn't going to do anything about it, sure.[/quote]

Okay, how about North Bethesda or Rockville. If you can't see that, well you might be a little blind. A kid was not allowed back the next year in my kid's immersion charter. The school found out the family lived in,  wait for it, the North Bethesda Rockville area of Maryland. [/quote]

Yeah, you're agreeing with me.  Many (if not all) of the schools in extended Bethesda and Rockville that used to be good are no longer any good.  Mostly due to immigrant kids who don't have a good command of written or spoken english, and the lower-income housing that exists there.  So, if one or two parents who live there commute to D.C. every morning, they are going to get a school of same or better quality if they can scam a way into DCPS.  And many of them do:  they get to drop off their kids in time to arrive at a nearby office, then pick them up after low-cost aftercare, and then go home to Maryland.  It's a great scam!  The same problem of school quality can be said for the disintegrating schools in Arlington and Alexandria (though I only rarely see VA plates at DCPS pick-up).  In D.C., it's mostly a problem of former D.C. residents who want child-care for their kids while they work a D.C. government or federal job.[/quote]

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