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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, what is it you hope to gain by sending your kids to Bethesda/Potomac schools over the Silver Spring schools?  I think that's what you must evaluate.  I grew up here - went to DCPS (which sucked even worse back then), but had many friends who went the private school (Big 3) route.  We've all ended up about the same.  In my professional life, I've met many graduates of the W high schools.  We work in the same places, have similar professional experiences.  In the end, there are so many factors that go into a child's happiness and success in life, that it seems hard to say whether or not a certain educational experience was "worth the sacrifice," other than the piece of mind it may give you as a parent.  And of course, that piece of mind can be false.  Also, your kids are young - you don't yet know what sort of school environment will or won't work for your kids.  If moving to one of these districts would cause great financial stress or cause you to purchase a house you would resent, I think you need to ask yourself what it is you are looking to gain from these schools - other than a general feeling that you've sent your kids to "good" schools.[/quote]

I find this interesting. And I recently talked to a very professionally accomplished person (now geting a PHD at an Ivy) who went to high school in a tiny town in the sticks. She acknowledged it put her behind in some areas, but she caught up in college. If people like these can overcome the disadvantages, what does that say about the value of school? Why are we agonizing over where to send our kids? It does make me wonder. Although the woman I spoke with did extoll her caring teachers, and the extracurriculars. Maybe it's the way a school helps develop the whole person that is more important than its academics.[/quote]

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