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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And Brooklyn pp, silver spring is really your best bet. It's not paradise, but it's a lot livelier than the parts of dc that seem diverse. And it is functional. We were driving through today as schools were getting out and I was amazed at the number of kids walking alone, parents socializing at school bus stops, actual school bus routes that serve entire populations, crossing guards at busy, multiple intersections, etc.
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I thought the middle schools (and even some elementary schools) weren't that great in Silver Spring though. I agree it is a great community but friends I know who live near downtown silver spring (near the whole foods) felt that they would have to move for better schools if they didn't get into a lottery-in french immersion school. So in that sense, it doesn't really seem better than DC (unless you actually prefer living in SS to DC, which is something I think people will have differing opinions about)[/quote]

I'm not disbelieving you, but most of the houses around Whole Foods are either already zoned for Sligo Creek (where French Immersion is hosted) or Woodlin, which is well regarded.

Sligo Creek (GS8) feeds into SSIMS (GS7), which is well liked in the neighborhood and which does well.

Woodlin (GS9) feeds into Sligo MS (GS6), which has really turned around in recent years with a strong principal and community buy-in.

If they were a little further out from Whole Foods, maybe they were talking about East Silver Spring (GS6), which feeds into (and has preference for the STEM magnet at) TPMS (GS10).

Still, none of these options are BAD options and I know families who have done well at all of the above.

I'm not trying to talk anyone into moving to Silver Spring, but the idea that schools here are terrible is at best drawing on extremely outdated information.  At worst, it is based on the idea that no school with racial and socioeconomic diversity could be "good." [/quote]

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