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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is also a pretty good "lesson learned" and warning to anyone who is making real estate decisions based only on elementary schools.  If you don't like your middle and high school options, that's almost a bigger deal than K-5, where you have a lot more control over your kid's peers and where the education is fairly standardized. [/quote]

Easy for you to say. Not everyone can afford the good school districts or private. That is the sadly the problem that many motivated families with a lower income face in this county. The Haves live on the west, the have nots live on the east. And those lucky ones in the east with $$$ will move to Howard County or send their kids to private. What do the rest of us do? In all honesty - the issue is the behavioral problems that the east school face. They need to take these kids out and send them to a remedial school like they used to have back in the 70's/80's. Win-win for everyone.[/quote]

Massively oversimplified. There are many, many "haves" in the eastern part of the county who don't like the culture of affluenza and competitive child-rearing so common in Bethesda.[/quote]

Yes, but I bet their kids are going to private schools. Not to any of the middle schools mentioned earlier.[/quote]

Then who do you think all these kids in our high schools are? Blair, Einstein, even Wheaton High School are not majority FARMS. If "everybody" goes private then where are all these kids coming from? Unless your definition of "haves" is the 1% (which would be nuts).
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