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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]there isn't anything magical about Bethesda. What is different is the kids in Bethesda come from wealthier families than where I assume you are.

What didn't you like about the kindergarten teachers? All the schools follow the same curricula.[/quote]
This simply isn't true. The faculty in Bethesda a lot better than in many other locations. A lot.

For example, I attended a Rosemary Hills Elementary School English as a Section Language parent meeting in August/September 2024, and a non-English parent through an interpreter asked the coordinator when can he get an update on how his child's English is doing considering that this will be their second year in the school and they are now in 1st grade. The coordinator told him that results are given to them in May and they inform the parents in June. Put differently, the coordinator told him to wait 2 years total. 
Out of curiosity I asked a teacher the same question here in Bethesda (without giving any background of my experience at Rosemary), and her response was to wait 2 months after school starts so that the kiddo can learn some kids' names, throw a party for the kids from his class and then see how he interacts verbally with them, and this'll show the parent how their kiddo is doing with their English. Sure, but response were true, but one is simply at a different caliber of thinking.

I've also interacted with teachers from different schools in MCPS and the caliber of the teachers and principals is astounding. Astounding.
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More often than not, this is not quite as black and white as you are making it seem. Bethesda teachers have all the parent support, resources, enrichments, and outside academic support that money can buy. That makes it more fun to teach in, means you can work outside the box in different ways, and means that your focus on struggling students is focused on just a few kids in a class. It also means that you can be mediocre in your instructional practices, and your students will still score high on tests. In schools with more complex demographics, the teachers that stay for years and years (which happens often) are amazing teachers- arguably the best. They have to spread themselves more thinly, and work/plan harder to help students make gains, and the gains aren't always as bright and shiny as in Bethesda. But their dedication and instructional practices are unmatched. I've taught in both, and there are pros and cons in both types, but it's not as simple as Bethesda= Good, Gaithersburg = Bad[/quote]

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