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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Central offices aside, there is much more effective teaching going on in NWDC ESs than in MCPS ESs in Bethesda or Silver Spring. The DC ES curriculum is way better, the classroom size caps are 20 or 22 and there is an aide in each classroom to help the teacher. They don't even need to do the rotating centers, kids get more teacher time speaking ,discussing and learning. They also have three times the amount of gym, music and art class than MCPS each week. plus foreign languages intros. Same fantastic community, talk to school, and involved parents/PTA.

Check it out yourself, in person.

But here's a start - classroom schedules, PTA initiatives, extracurriculars. All right there. 
https://www.janneyschool.org/[/quote]

It would be a mistake to equate the (excellent) opportunities available at the richest elementary school in the District, a school currently hounding parents for a $750 PER KID "donation" to the PTA, as somehow standing in for DCPS in general.

There's a reason folks always look to Janney to make the case for DCPS - because it is a fairly singular neighborhood school success story. It is also an outlier in almost every way, not to mention being completely inaccessible for all but the richest Washingtonians.

This isn't really about DCPS vs. MCPS because I don't think that's a productive argument. But there is real danger in trumpeting the richest, whitest, least diverse DCPS neighborhood school as some sort of success story for the entire district, which still struggles terribly with inequity. [/quote]

Ppl buying in NW DC are a similar cohort as those buying in Bethesda. Nowadays they can make a direct comparison of those schools and decide for themselves. The schools are trending in opposite directions. I know what I would decide. [/quote]

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