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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved from 22314 last year after one year at GWMS. OP, I would start your child in ACPS for K and stay through mid-to-late elementary.

We loved our ACPS elementary school and had a fantastic experience there. Warm community, excellent teachers, and strong, responsive, caring admin. This was not our experience at GWMS. The admin 6th grade principal screamed at the students and threatened all of them with loss of privileges (despite it being only a few acting up), only one person in the entire administration would respond to anything even when we were having issues with a class transfer and time was of the essence, restrooms were locked, some teachers were excellent and some were going through the motions (including a math teacher who disappeared during the school year leaving revolving subs for the remainder).

Our experience at the current middle school has been the opposite, just a wonderful experience. The flip side is that our experience at the current elementary is not as great as at our ACPS elementary. The test scores are through the roof and it got "distinguished" instead of "off track" but it's triple the size of our ACPS elementary with a concomitant loss of community, and my middle child had the worst teacher any of my kids have ever had (shouldn't be in a classroom) last year and now the most disruptive student any have ever had (finally removed from the school for the remainder of this school year after yet another child was injured). Would we move again? Yes, but it's not all rainbows and unicorns here either.

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Can you give an indication of what area you moved to?[/quote]

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