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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A huge number of us teachers are raising our kids in Silver Spring schools.  No one --  and i mean no one -- knows the schools better than we do.  We value our children's education probably more than other other profession.  We would never let our kids go to schools that don't meet our expectations.  And we don't. [/quote]

DC is at a focus school in the SS area. About 1/3'rd of their class reads at +2 grade levels. Sure there are some kids who struggle too, but the point is there are plenty of high-achievers. The nice thing about these schools unlike schools in areas like Bethesda is there are more differentiated learning opportunities and class sizes are often much smaller.[/quote]

Sounds similar to our experience. It's great that DC's 2nd-grade class only has 16 kids, and unfortunate this can't be the norm everywhere.[/quote]

To further put this in perspective for OP and others, my older child's 1st grade class at a "W" ES had 27 kids to start the year; she had 25 in her K class.  Younger child's first grade class has only 23 I think.  22-25 seems to be the norm in our school for the younger grades (K-2).  The class of 27 was a grade cohort that just barely missed qualifying for an additional classroom.          [/quote]

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