Anonymous
Post 04/21/2015 22:07     Subject: Wayside Elementary
OP - the topics are intertwined. Wayside = really wealthy school. So stop pretending that they aren't.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2015 20:28     Subject: Wayside Elementary
OP here. I notice there's more on this thread about wealthy / not wealthy / diverse / not diverse than actual feedback from genuine parents about the school.

thank you to those who early on, gave me their thoughts. To the rest of you - maybe you need to start a new thread about wealth and privilege or diversity, or something where you can argue ad infinitum...
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2015 20:18     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:The neighborhoods around Wayside are ridiculously expensive, with huge fancy homes. Those folks are very wealthy, or well-off or stinking rich - you pick the term. It's a rich school - it is what it is.


And that is a good thing, right?
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2015 20:12     Subject: Wayside Elementary
The neighborhoods around Wayside are ridiculously expensive, with huge fancy homes. Those folks are very wealthy, or well-off or stinking rich - you pick the term. It's a rich school - it is what it is.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2015 09:34     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you like your elementary schools white and very rich, you will like at Wayside. Extremely wealthy families.


Just to let you know OP, all families look for very white because they are the highest testing schools with little social issues. You won't have little Maria and Jose slowing the group down not knowing how to speak English.


As a family with children at Wayside, I can assure you there are plenty of children taking ESOL. And even more who do not, but speak a different language at home. And yes, including Spanish!


If you think 8% on ESOL is a lot, you are completely blind to the rest of MC. And you have 3% on FARMS. Which means no illegal aliens, no social issues, etc... You are looking at maybe a few diplomat kids and some nannies who send their kids there.


I did not say a high FARMS rate. Wayside has a very low FARMS rate. I was responding to saying that Wayside was "white". It is not. Don't confuse us with the Whitman cluster.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 09:38     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:You know, it's not like people wake up one day and say, "Wow, I'm rich!" Many of us came from very modest backgrounds and worked hard to go to school and work our way up the ladder. Keeping spending habits such that we can buy our first starter house...working working working, saving saving, then another bigger house in a nice neighborhood. That is how Americans do it. If you have a problem with this, then you are un-American.


That is how some Americans do it. How other Americans do it -- they come from modest backgrounds, they work hard, but nonetheless things don't turn out so well for them as they did for you. I hope that you consider yourself fortunate.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 09:36     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:I even know someone who rents a home in the Wayside zone!


But what's the rent?
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 09:28     Subject: Wayside Elementary
I even know someone who rents a home in the Wayside zone!
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 16:14     Subject: Wayside Elementary
You know, it's not like people wake up one day and say, "Wow, I'm rich!" Many of us came from very modest backgrounds and worked hard to go to school and work our way up the ladder. Keeping spending habits such that we can buy our first starter house...working working working, saving saving, then another bigger house in a nice neighborhood. That is how Americans do it. If you have a problem with this, then you are un-American.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 08:30     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Rich people have social issues too. True fact!
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 01:09     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you like your elementary schools white and very rich, you will like at Wayside. Extremely wealthy families.


Just to let you know OP, all families look for very white because they are the highest testing schools with little social issues. You won't have little Maria and Jose slowing the group down not knowing how to speak English.


As a family with children at Wayside, I can assure you there are plenty of children taking ESOL. And even more who do not, but speak a different language at home. And yes, including Spanish!


If you think 8% on ESOL is a lot, you are completely blind to the rest of MC. And you have 3% on FARMS. Which means no illegal aliens, no social issues, etc... You are looking at maybe a few diplomat kids and some nannies who send their kids there.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 22:36     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If you like your elementary schools white and very rich, you will like at Wayside. Extremely wealthy families.


Just to let you know OP, all families look for very white because they are the highest testing schools with little social issues. You won't have little Maria and Jose slowing the group down not knowing how to speak English.


As a family with children at Wayside, I can assure you there are plenty of children taking ESOL. And even more who do not, but speak a different language at home. And yes, including Spanish!
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 17:04     Subject: Re:Wayside Elementary
To the poster(s) that think Potomac is white and snobby, the majority of those buying in this market are Asian and/or Indian, not Caucasian. My cul-de-sac alone has two Caucasian, two Asian, one eastern European and one African American family. So, I think your looking to save that the Wayside community is diverse!

My wife and I work hard to afford our children the best education we can.

If you can't afford the Churchill cluster, there are great schools throughout this County in which housing is more affordable.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 15:02     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The poster is not interested in how wealthy parents are in the Wayside school district. Wayside is a very good school and provides a great education. Yes, there are some very well off people within the Wayside district, but there are also many hardworking, two income families who invested a lot in their homes to get high performing schools. People who are only focused on other people's money on this board are just petty.


If you are able to invest enough in your home to buy a home in the Wayside school zone, chances are that you're wealthy. That's not jealous or pettiness; it's just a fact.

Also a fact: there are non-wealthy, hard-working, two-income families who want high-performing schools but are excluded from living in the Wayside school zone, because there is no housing that they can afford.

Are those two facts relevant for the OP? Probably not. Are they relevant for Montgomery County and Montgomery County Public Schools? Absolutely.


Just curious as to how you define wealthy? I always thought most wealthy sent their kids to private schools. I think you are misusing the word. Well off? Yes. Wealthy? Not necessarily.


People who make distinctions between "well off" and "wealthy" are wealthy.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 14:58     Subject: Wayside Elementary
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The poster is not interested in how wealthy parents are in the Wayside school district. Wayside is a very good school and provides a great education. Yes, there are some very well off people within the Wayside district, but there are also many hardworking, two income families who invested a lot in their homes to get high performing schools. People who are only focused on other people's money on this board are just petty.


If you are able to invest enough in your home to buy a home in the Wayside school zone, chances are that you're wealthy. That's not jealous or pettiness; it's just a fact.

Also a fact: there are non-wealthy, hard-working, two-income families who want high-performing schools but are excluded from living in the Wayside school zone, because there is no housing that they can afford.

Are those two facts relevant for the OP? Probably not. Are they relevant for Montgomery County and Montgomery County Public Schools? Absolutely.


Just curious as to how you define wealthy? I always thought most wealthy sent their kids to private schools. I think you are misusing the word. Well off? Yes. Wealthy? Not necessarily.