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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As cool as the OT immersion program sounds, in the long run, your child will get a better education from RCF/Silver Creek/BCC.  Just compare the avg SAT score at BCC vs Einstein.  Plus with BCC at ~32% Black/Hispanic BCC will also provide you with the diversity many on this board crave.[/quote]

Einstein has a lot of high performing kids.[/quote]

They do.  And as one of the OTES parents on the thread, the earlier comment is laughable.  I should forego the chance for my kids to become fluent in another language so they can avoid socioeconomic diversity?  That's what it comes down to, PP, and you know it.  One of the things our family loves about OTES is the range of diversity it includes. [b] I went to a W school as a kid, so I know what that brand of "diversity" looks like.  No, thanks.[/b]

I don't think you can go wrong with Flora Singer, OP, and if you like your neighbors, I'm not sure I would move.  Seeing my Kindergartner excited to learn Spanish is pretty amazing, though, and I am so, so grateful for the opportunity.[/quote]

Things have changed in the decades and decades and decades since you were a kid.

You might actually like your former school if you still owned a house in that neighborhood.   But then you couldn't come on this board and make disparaging comments like that.   Who knows.  Glad you've found happiness at your school.[/quote]

I know that they've changed, and it's not for the better (IMO).  The neighborhood in which I grew up, which at the time was all small, post WWII homes, is largely filled with McMansions on tiny lots and is completely inaccessible to families like the one in which I was raised (absent family wealth).  We have friends who moved there, and their daughter has had a horrible time making friends; another childhood friend with older kids also confirmed that it's not the welcoming, friendly place it once was.

Yeah, yeah, you want to believe you value diversity.  You don't, not really.  Own it.[/quote]

Except, the flippers and McMansions are now in OT and Flora Singer too.  They have done Chevy Chase, Bethesda and other parts so now they are moving out where the last of the "affordable" housing is (and its in quotes as its not really affordable especially for what you get).[/quote]
They’re coming, but it’s not nearly what it is in Bethesda.  The percentage of McMansions here is like what it was ~30 years ago in Bethesda (at least the part where I grew up).  You can’t argue that they’re comparable at all.[/quote]

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