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[quote=Anonymous]Despite the occasional bouts of vitriol, this is a very interesting discussion.

My child is in the Spanish Immersion program at RCF and so may continue on to Westland.  However, it's an extremely long commute that would involve a 15 minute drive from our house followed by the long bus ride from RCF to Westland.

I think this is an important quality of life issue for our family.  The more I think about it, the more I think it's more important for him to be closer to home.  I know lots of people in our relatively high FARMS Silver Spring MS who are extremely happy -- these are smart kids from families whose parents are professional and very attentive to their education.

I do worry about how engaging the classes will be, because I think MCPS has taken the approach of elevating the lower performers and ignoring the higher performers.  I'm not sure how different this is in west county middle schools, though.  Do they offer, for example, GT English that's really GT?  I've done some research and found that our local MS has GT and regular English but what they REALLY are teaching is on grade level English (called GT) and remedial English.

I wish MCPS would continue to emphasize high quality programs in local schools for kids who can handle more advanced material, rather than the "everyone is advanced" approach.  If I could be assured that DS could take challenging classes, I would never even consider sending him to Westland.

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