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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, come back and please define "down-to-earth" for us!

I'm afraid you might need to leave the DC metro area entirely for this.[/quote]

OP back.  Ha ha, that's what I'm afraid of!  I guess by "down-to-earth" I mean not extremely wealthy, not extremely fixated on Ivy colleges, not focused solely on outward experiences.  My high school experience was maybe unique in that I went to school in a small down dominated by a land-grant public research university specializing in the sciencies, so my classmates were kids of physicists, ranchers, and migrant farmworkers.  Very little pretension, but academically very sound.  I may have to get in my time machine and return to the 80s as well, I realize.

I guess the ONE thing that freaks me out the most is the wealth that seems to correlate with the "good" school clusters ... i.e. Bethesda.  I have no problem with material success, but I'm just unfamiliar and alienated by the idea of my kid being surrounded mainly by the children of law firm partners, etc.  [/quote]

Well, yes, the wealth correlates with the "good" (i.e., [b]W[/b]ealthy/[b]W[/b]hite) school clusters, because wealth/SES and test scores are correlated. But it doesn't necessarily correlate with the actually good schools. There are plenty of us in the Ganglandia and Bumfuckistan parts of MCPS who are perfectly happy with the education our kids are getting, and also plenty of people (at least judging from DCUM) in [b]W[/b]ealthy/[b]W[/b]hite who are very unhappy with the education their kids are getting.[/quote]

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