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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here:

To help give more tailored advice, our question is:

1. Move to the Eaton or Mann districts now, then move to Bethesda (Pyle or Westland) for 6th grade

2.  Move to the Wood Acres or Bradley Hills neighborhoods now, and then feed into Pyle-Whitman

WWYD? Are we silly to even consider moving twice, so that our kids get the best public school experiences at each level?

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I would do Mann through 5th, then move to Pyle for 6th. Mann is a fantastic school with an extra teacher in each class. You will not get that anywhere in MCPS. But the good schools in DC, like Deal, are not as good as Pyle.

GL![/quote]

That not entirely true. At our close in Bethesda school and Im sure many others, there are breakout teachers. Yes the homeroom is one teacher but for things like reading, the class gets split into ability groups where the kids with needs go off as do the advanced kids and the core group remains all with different teachers who then rotate to the next class.  It the end the kids get the attention they need in much smaller groups not to mention lots of specialists like feelings counselors, speech therapists and so on. All without having to pay stupid high PTA dues[/quote]

Not the same thing as having 2 dedicated full-time teachers in each class. Not even close. [/quote]

Wait, DC schools have two teachers per class in elementary school?  Really?  What are the class sizes there?[/quote]

DC PTAs are allowed to fundraise and pay the salaries of additional teachers. These are extra teachers paid for by the parent community of the school and are only present at the schools that have PTAs that can support those expenditures.

MCPS PTAs are not allowed to pay for staff, ever. So in MCPS, the staff allocations are what the county gives the school and cannot be expanded on by the PTA/parent community/school foundation, etc[/quote]

Wait, are you serious?  In DC they let rich parents pay for extra teachers for their kids, and kids at those schools get better staffing than poorer kids whose parents can't afford to do that?  That's one of the most obscenely unfair hings I have ever heard of in a public school system.  I honestly thought it was a bad joke but I looked it up and it seems true.  [/quote]

Yes, they do. That's why the upper NW ES, particularly Mann, are so much better than the MCPS ES.[/quote]
No, they are not.  Not at all [/quote]

You tell yourself that.[/quote]
Even Niche says you’re in denial. 
https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-public-elementary-schools/m/washington-dc-metro-area/[/quote]

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