I live between 270 and 355 and consider it very safe. I walk alone after dark and think nothing of it. Tons of people out with dogs or walking for ice cream! I would not change my habits based on one incident that was not a trend (like the RHS situation)

Anonymous wrote:Ridiculous thread, as if rape is tied to economic status.

But think about the children?!!?!?!?

(Agreed, this thread is ridiculous.)

Ridiculous thread, as if rape is tied to economic status.

Anonymous wrote:Just enough minorities to support the bell curve. Look up the stats.

And yet there are exceptions to every rule so don't get too comfortable in your expectations about minorities.

Anonymous wrote:Pp not exactly the bell curve I was referring to. There was a famous book about this.

Can you just grow up and focus on your own kid? Bell curve this, minorities that. Geez people. And for people fixated on the % of what kind of minority, do you actually expect every place to be a perfect reflection of the US population - 12% black, etc.? The country has never been like that! It never will! It's not a blender. There will always be clumps of people in different places. Who cares?! I'm black and I don't.

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20852, aka north Bethesda. Feeds to Walter Johnson.

some of 20852 feeds to Richard Montgomery. Feel quite safe here.

+1

Look in the part of the Rockville that's zoned for Wootton (which draws from both Rockville and Potomac). Very safe and nice neighborhoods, and you're in the best schools in the DMV.

Anonymous wrote:I understand news like this is scary, but let's remind ourselves that it's very irrational to shift our opinion on something based on sensational and rare instances of crime.

I live in 20853. There is a huge disparity depending on where you are. Flower Valley is lovely, but go south of Bel Pre, heading near Parkland into the area near Brookhaven and you can see the neighborhood changing.

PPs must have a short memory. Remember that man who shot his wife, and then shot another woman at Montgomery Mall last year? Police ended up catching him at the Boston Market right there in Aspen Hill. Schools in the area were on high alert that day, so anyone who actually does live in the area with kids would probably remember this.

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Anonymous wrote:PP mentioned Rockshire and Fallsmead. There are others in the area, I dont know the names. Wootton High is a nice balance for a W school. I went to WJ and we did have minor problems. I heard its gotten worse and a few refuse to speak English. DS goes to Wootten and has not had any problems. Frost middle did have some problems in the leadership.

Nice balance of what? Just white/Asian kids?

Yes. A balance of white and Asian

Damn those dang whites and Asians with their fancy test takin and good grades show offs.

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Anonymous wrote:PP mentioned Rockshire and Fallsmead. There are others in the area, I dont know the names. Wootton High is a nice balance for a W school. I went to WJ and we did have minor problems. I heard its gotten worse and a few refuse to speak English. DS goes to Wootten and has not had any problems. Frost middle did have some problems in the leadership.

W stands for wealthy and white. Wootton isn't wealthy or really that white. If starting with the letter W and aspirationally jonesy was all it took to be counted a W then Wheaton would be a W too. Rockville is not what people mean by wanting the Ws

Wrong. Wootton is definitely one of the W's. Whitman, Winston Churchill, Walter Johnson and Wootton. And Wootton is really wealthy. Not compared to Whitman-but pretty on par with all the others.

How long did you lived zoned for Wootton before you started to believe yourself?

Pp not exactly the bell curve I was referring to. There was a famous book about this.

Anonymous wrote:Just enough minorities to support the bell curve. Look up the stats.

I know the stats well. 81.7% White + Asian. However, only 14.2% TOTAL between Black and Hispanic. That leaves 4.1% for Native American, Pacific Islander, and Multiethnic. I'd bet its 3% multiethnic at MINIMUM, and we know that multiethnic is White + Asian....so really more like nearly 85% White, Asian, or both. That isn't any bell curve.

WJ alum back - some recent immigrants may have difficulty learning the language. However it does give them the right to abuse others verbally. I took enough spanish to understand.

Just enough minorities to support the bell curve. Look up the stats.

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Anonymous wrote:PP mentioned Rockshire and Fallsmead. There are others in the area, I dont know the names. Wootton High is a nice balance for a W school. I went to WJ and we did have minor problems. I heard its gotten worse and a few refuse to speak English. DS goes to Wootten and has not had any problems. Frost middle did have some problems in the leadership.

Nice balance of what? Just white/Asian kids?

Yes. A balance of white and Asian