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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're open to staying in Silver Spring, Flora Singer Elementary has a learning center that serves kids with special needs. I have friends and neighbors who have had kids with autism spectrum diagnoses go there and have reported very good experiences.  And it's a nice, friendly, down-to-earth diverse neighborhood school. [/quote]

Thank you, that's right by my current house. Great to know, though I don't think I can afford anything in this area on my own. [/quote]

DP with kids at Oakland Terrace, which is very similar to Singer in many ways - OP, I honestly think that much of MoCo will be more of a pressure cooker than you want.  For example, Singer and OTES are friendly, diverse, etc., WAY more chill than W-feeders, and still have more academic intensity than many other places.  My DD, now in fifth, has told me multiple times that she was the only kid in her class in first and second grades who didn't do the assigned homework.   :D (She may be exaggerating, but not by much, knowing her.)  Now, her teachers never asked after it, to her or to us as parents, but it was there and the expectation was that it would be done.  Many parents in-bounds for DCC high schools are highly educated if not wealthy, and still have high academic standards of the kind you describe wanting to avoid.

If you haven't already, you might try posting in the "Maryland Schools not MCPS," or whatever forum it's called, to see what the experiences are like in Frederick County, for example.  [b]Otherwise, yes, high schools like Sherwood, Magruder, Seneca Valley, are overall going to be less academically intense than even downcounty ones[/b].[/quote]

How do you know this, PP? I live in upcounty, and I can tell you that there is intense competition here. Do you know how many Asian families are up here? LOL but no kidding. Kid goes to Seneca Valley.[/quote]

NP. Yep...there are tons of Asians up here. Asians prefer newly built homes such as the ones in Cabin Branch, and CB was recently rezoned to SVHS.[/quote]

I have no idea if this is true or not, but we have boring old housing stock for the most part in the Magruder and Rockville zones (lots built in the 1960s and 1970s) and it’s been a generally chill experience. DC is now starting senior year and teammates’ parents are a bunch of UMD grads who are obsessed with their kids getting into … UMD  :D 
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