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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are Einstein cluster (Silver Spring/ Kensington) and  in the past 3 years I have sent off son and daughter to one private  Ivy and one public Ivy. So please stop denigrating our wonderful local high school.

My husband and i only halfway joke that we can afford these colleges partly because we bought a home in Silver Spring, not Bethesda, and saved a quarter million dollars. [/quote]

Not sure why the SS residents are so defensive here. It's a cool town, and great commute into DC. Nice diversity too. But man, it seems every poster is adamantly defending the area like it's the second coming - and NOTHING critical can be said about it. SS has plenty of flaws as well. And OP isn't choosing between SS and Bethesda - she's choosing between Silver Spring and the more affordable parts of Arlington, which are far more similar than different. [/quote]

Because there is some lunatic who is telling OP that she's both endangering her investment and the future of her child if she chooses SS over Arlington. Why does that person care so much? If PP worked closer to Arlington, I would tell her to live in Arlington (that's what we did). But since she does not, SS is a better choice for her. It's better for all of us in the DMV and everywhere if people choose to live closer to their jobs. Arlington is not hurting for residents, and probably won't be in the near future. OP should move where it works best for her commute. [/quote]

+1 I live in Arlington and agree a single mom working in Silver Spring should live in Silver Spring.  There is no advantage to adding a commute and it will greatly simplify your life to live near work and your child's school.[/quote]

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I'm one of the SS people, but if OP said she were working near Arlington or in Reston or something, I would absolutely tell her to live there.  Of course SS has its drawbacks, as does every community.  But those are nowhere near enough to preclude someone who *works there* to also live there.  So, yeah, I will defend it when people who have zero experience with it claim that it's some kind of unlivable hellscape.[/quote]

+3. I actually live in Clarksburg, so not a SS person. I'm sick of people spreading lies or rumors about SS or its schools especially when they have very little knowledge of it. Example, it's clear that one of the above PPs who stated that all Einstein students are unprepared for college, if they get in at all; is just wanting to perpetuate lies in order to make that school and its neighborhood unappealing to people. [/quote]

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