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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.  (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.  Otherwise, yes, high schools like Sherwood, Magruder, Seneca Valley, are overall going to be less academically intense than even downcounty ones.[/quote]

+1  My sisters and I attended a school with no homework through 8th grade.  We all have graduate degrees and highly successful careers.

Why didn’t your kid do the assigned homework?? That seems like a pretty basic standard to me. I don’t want my kids surrounded by slackers, but maybe OP and you do?[/quote]

Wow. The research does not support homework prior to at least 4th grade. Large studies demonstrate absolutely no long-term benefits. So it is taking up precious time they could be playing (with parents or friends), relaxing from the day, etc. There wouldn’t be any homework battles, which impact parent-child relationships and everyone’s mood, all for naught. As a child psychologist, I can assure you that young kids not getting homework does not mean that they are slackers. I was not overloaded with homework in middle school or high school - I rode my horse or played basketball, depending on the season, hung with friends, and of course did some homework. And I have a PhD in clinical psychology, requiring 11 years of post-high school studies/training. I’m anything but a slacker but my memories of my childhood were of all the fun things I did, not stuck in my bedroom stressed and up late doing homework. [/quote][/quote]

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