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Montgomery Ciunty Maryland has one of the highest concentrations of students from poor and uneducated families?  LOL.  [/quote]

No other county in the Washington region, including the District of Columbia, experienced increases in poverty of the same magnitude during the late 2000s as MoCo.
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2013/05/22-suburban-poverty-kneebone-berube

Data Point: In the three years between 2007 and 2010, Montgomery County shed more than 37,000 jobs, dropping below its 2000 jobs total by 2010.
At the same time that the county faced unprecedented economic challenges, it also experienced a rapid demographic transformation. The 2010 census revealed that, for the first time, non-Hispanic whites constituted less than half (49 percent) of the county’s residents, down from 73 percent two decades earlier. And while immigrants accounted for fewer than one in five residents in 1990, in 2010 they represented almost one-third of the population and almost 40 percent of poor residents.

Data Point: Between 2007 and 2010, the number of residents living below the federal poverty line grew by two-thirds, or more than 30,000 people, pushing the poverty rate up by nearly 3 percentage points.
Rapid increases in poverty, coupled with the shifting demographics, often left communities in suburban Montgomery County struggling to play catch-up without the resources to match the growing and changing needs of their residents.
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We can only afford to buy a house under 500k, and one of our goals is to try to find a neighborhood where we can actually speak English as a first or second language with our neighbors. The LOL poster must not go across Rockville Pike to points east very much.[/quote]

I agree, s/he needs to spend some time walking around there and Wheaton to witness "concentrations" in action and see firsthand what some teachers have to deal with. [/quote]

Nice try, but I am from southeast DC and also spent a portion of my childhood in inner-city Philadelphia, and I now live in Silver Spring.  The "poverty" you see in MoCo or FFX is absolutely nothing compared to the generational poverty, despair, violence, etc found in the inner city, and it's slightly offensive you think it is comparable. [/quote]

I am the PP...why do people on message boards in this area feel the need to "out impoverish" others? I am from an area with generational poverty and my goal is to do better for myself. My goal is now to live near people I can communicate with on a basic level (ie, some English) and feel that the schools will not crater in performance (along with property values) because there are actually very few legally voting citizens in the area. Would much prefer impoverished Americans who could actually band together and vote new school board members in.

And, while "all the best" private schools are in Potomac and Bethesda, I am talking about all the other private schools (mostly religious) which seem to be fairly thick on the ground in eastern MoCo. Do  search of the area and see what I am talking about: in Olney alone there is a large Catholic school, an Episcopal school, a small seventh day adventist school, sandy spring Friends school. Heading toward Glenmont on Georgia Ave there is yet another Catholic School off Norbeck, a couple of miles away. Those are just the ones I see while driving around. That observation prompted me to look into the MoCo schools before we invested money in a house. Can't be that good if people are willing to spend lots of $$ to send their kids to a not so prestigious private school.

I did a "Great Schools" search and within 5 miles of 20906; eliminating pre-schools, there are [b]54[/b] private schools which offer grades between 1-12  :shock: : http://www.greatschools.org/search/search.page?lat=39.0816821&lon=-77.0449327&zipCode=20906&state=MD&locationType=postal_code&normalizedAddress=Silver%20Spring,%20MD%2020906&city=Silver%20Spring&sortBy=DISTANCE&locationSearchString=20906&distance=5&gradeLevels=e&gradeLevels=m&gradeLevels=h&st=private&pageSize=100
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