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OP,

We moved to Bethesda years ago specifically for two things:
1. Short commute.
2. The school had a great reputation for taking care of its special needs population.

The two above criteria are the most important! Wealthy neighborhoods don't always have the best IEP teams. You have to create a thread specifically for that. It depends on the Principal of each school. As a rule of thumb, if the school houses a special program, then you can have some reassurance that they take special needs seriously, even if your child is not necessarily in that program. Walter Johnson is a north Bethesda cluster that houses the GT/LD and Asperger's programs. You need to look at each website, see what programs they have in each school.

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It doesn't sound like OP can afford Bethesda[/quote]

PP you replied to. Right. I just meant it as an example of how we went about looking for a house and school. OP doesn't need to worry about commute right now, and she has price restrictions, but it doesn't change the fact that IEP services will vary wildly depending on the Principal of each school, and W schools aren't necessarily better. The previous principal of Somerset ES (wealthy Chevy Chase) was notorious for not being helpful at all... So it's going to be grunt work. And as I said, start with the schools that house special programs already. [/quote]

Just for the record, the notoriously unhelpful Somerset principal is not "previous"--she was on leave, and she's back. We are there now and wish we were anywhere else. She has run that school into the ground. I feel terribly for the staff.[/quote]

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