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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP the silver spring schools are rubbish. please don't move there because you feel poor compared to some families in Bethesda.

We were not rich and our kids did fine at Whitman. Go for the academically strongest place you can find. Whitman, BCC, Churchill.  The second 2 of these will be more diverse, if that matters to you.[/quote]

How can you know that the SS schools are rubbish?  I don't have a dog in this fight, but am considering a MoCo move, and I had the impression that Blair, at least (which is TKPK not SS, I guess) had offerings and outcomes as good as the W/BCC schools.    [/quote]

DP.  Here is the Blair sheet, see what you think.

https://ww2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/regulatoryaccountability/glance/currentyear/schools/04757.pdf[/quote]

Blair is really silver spring and its outcomes are propped up by the magnet and cap programs. The rest of the school is like Eastern middle (zoned for Blair) but with older kids doing older things. The reason those programs were put there is Blair was the poorest most diverse school in MoCo at the time. It was and is a carrot to get white kids ehemmm good students to self integrate in an attempt to stave off middle class (white) flight that was crippling DC and in the eastern inner suburbs at the time. There are other schools that need it more now that proximity has stabilized TP and DTSS prices for lower income white collar, no family money types priced out of better areas.

All the parents who take locality pride for some bussed in Chevy Chase Asian kid going to an ivy despite their own avg GS13 quality C student offspring is just the type of perception bounce a school like Kennedy and the DCC Lottery could use that would make real changes to system for the better.

So many parents who bought into areas with lots of FARMS push for what seems to be retaliatory sending of poor kids to rich areas when the most realistic plan is sending the rich kids to the poor schools. It worked for Blair but that seems to be forgotten and in typical middle class outrage  it becomes about hoarding resources and off loading problems. If you view most posts on DCUM they almost always are about hoarding resources and offloading problems with a thin veneer of self proclaimed righteousness[/quote]

OP - These are the parents you are going to be rubbing shoulders with at a school like Whitman. Snobby, snarky, status-obsessed, and absolutely paranoid that some conspiracy is afoot to make their schools slightly more diverse.

I think you will be fine wherever you end up, but I also thing one of the other PPs is right. No one thinks they are rich, which means you are hearing from people on this thread who claim to be regular middle class folks but who are in the 1% (and the global .1%). Honestly, a well-supported kid is going to do well anywhere, and in your position I'd pick the house and lifestyle you want. Of all the schools you have listed, B-CC is the most diverse and to my mind has the best lifestyle for you and for your kids. I personally place a huge premium on reducing driving for teens, and living in-bounds for B-CC means your child will have access to public transportation and a walkable downtown without needing to drive while their brain is still developing. I'd weight that far above something as superficial as average test scores. [/quote]

LOL.  If I was OP, I think I’d rather be anywhere you are not. [/quote]

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