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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
The ES cohorts in the Wootton cluster are light years ahead of the cohorts at PBES and TPMS but they are mostly foreign born -Indian, Chinese, Korean, Russian. The white parents are somewhat more accomplished and smarter than their counterparts in Silver Spring but they are not very different than white parents in QO or any other MCPS that isn't low performing. The Wootton cluster is good for you if your kid doesn't want to be an outlier and is happy being friends with a mix of white smart but not brilliant kids and brilliant non-white kids then its a good fit.

No one moves to Silver Spring for the schools. They move there for the discount. The MC people that do live there tend to be in communications, local school system and government workers, feds at lower level positions, liberal arts degree, non-big law legal practices etc. The NASA scientists live in Greenbelt and go private or for the magnets in that county. NIH researchers live in WJ and Wootton. Doctors live in Whitman, Churchill, Wootton and WJ depending on their speciality.[/quote]

[quote]Haha, we have observed the same. What about Churchill?[/quote]

Big law, lobbyists, CEOs, doctors for higher paid specialities and now wealthy Indians, Chinese and Saudis. Population gets split between public and top tier private schools. For STEM, Wayside seems to have the highest gifted STEM cohort in line with the other Wootton ES schools. [/quote]

and in every other part of Montgomery county...[/quote]

Plus half the county goes private. Dirty little secret of most neighborhoods.[/quote]

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