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[quote=Anonymous]Having looked at both, DCPS offers more extracurricularly at the elementary level, both during and after school — depending on the school. From field trips to music to foreign language.

DC also offers many more immersion seats, if you want to go that route.

In the last few years, it also seems that NW DC public elementary schools have been subject to fewer hate crimes and swatting calls than Bethesda and Rockville ESs. The same trend appears to be true at the MS and HS level (DC schools go on lockdown less often) vs Bethesda and Rockville HSs, at least based on what gets reported in the news. Neither school system seems to have sufficient safety protections in place given the level of risk — but on the margin, major incidents appear to happen less frequently in NW DC schools.

We have opted to do DC for elementary school and then reconsider moving to MoCo for MS and HS and/or going private at that time.

I share your concerns about the social impacts of switching school systems halfway through K-12 and don’t feel terribly confident in our decision, but this is what we’re doing.

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