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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]

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]

LOL - as the PP you're replying to, there's no evidence that homework is beneficial for young children.  None.  I'm not going to force my kids to engage in busywork at the expense of free play.  When they're older, sure, but in first grade?  Please.  Insisting on homework at that age tells me the adult in question knows little about child development.
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1st grade homework generally takes like 10 minutes one day a week.  If it's more than that to the extend you feel like it's coming "at the expense of free play," talk to the teachers.  But almost uniformly, the elementary teacher in our school approach homework as a way to get the kids used to doing homework and taking responsibility, as well as a way for parents to see what their kids are doing.  [/quote]

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