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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP why not rent an airbnb for a week in a neighborhood? It will give you live experience on the ground and won't disrupt your day to day  too much for work commuting at least.

It would be hard with kids, especially if they are in elementary school. Potentially a weekend getaway? Wont' simulate everything but you can practice a commute and see the feel while keeping your job.

Silver Spring is a fine area. Not as upscale as Bethesda but hardly run down. Have you thought about living in Alexandria? It is also much cheaper than Arlington, not as nice, but keeps you somewhat close to where you are today. I imagine it is similar to Silver Spring in terms of quality of life.[/quote]

This is OP. I’m counting on the Silver Spring high schools being better than Alexandria High School. I wouldn’t send my child there. If anyone has knowledge of both and thinks they are comparable, I’d be interested in hearing that, but I can’t see my coworkers choosing Alexandria High School if they had options, so I don’t think they are comparable.

Respectfully, no one is going to come up with some miracle stay-in-Virginia solution that I just haven’t thought of. I know Virginia. I’ve lived here for 40 years. I started this thread to gather more information about Silver Spring, which I don’t know at all. I do appreciate the helpful responses that people have written! It’s given me a lot to think about.[/quote]
DP. I would maybe send my kid to some of the high schools in SS but not in Alexandria. Only thing to keep in mind is if your kid has an iep MD they can do certain things without consent. The other thing is that MCPS is a large school system so has a much more substantial layer of bureaucracy than you’re used to in APS.  [/quote]

This is OP.  By "they can do things without consent" do you mean that there is no state law (like there is in Virginia) requiring parent consent for changes to the IEP, so there are no stay put rights?[/quote]

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