Anonymous wrote:Not the PP but according to 00:19, poor kids going to BCC feel like outcasts and they would be more comfortable if they go to Einstein, Kennedy, Springbrook, Blair, etc where the poor are more accepted.

No, I think her point was kids she knows at Einstein are happy while the kid she knows at BCC is miserable because of an unpleasant, preoccupation with wealth and status social scene.

Anonymous wrote:Not the PP but according to 00:19, poor kids going to BCC feel like outcasts and they would be more comfortable if they go to Einstein, Kennedy, Springbrook, Blair, etc where the poor are more accepted.

Its not about "poor," even those making $200,000 would have the same issue in less the parents are in debt and spending everything they have.

Not the PP but according to 00:19, poor kids going to BCC feel like outcasts and they would be more comfortable if they go to Einstein, Kennedy, Springbrook, Blair, etc where the poor are more accepted.

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like you are arguing for separate but equal. That the county should stop changing boundaries to put poor kids into the rich schools. They will feel like outcasts. As much as many would like to, we can't make the rich kids poor.

What are you talking about?

It sounds like you are arguing for separate but equal. That the county should stop changing boundaries to put poor kids into the rich schools. They will feel like outcasts. As much as many would like to, we can't make the rich kids poor.

My SS neighborhood (Woodside) feeds into Einstein. My kids are still in ES so here's my two cents from the teenage babysitter perspective. Over the years I've had four Einstein students as sitters, two Blair students, and one BCC. All of them have been great young women, smart and motivated and college-bound and basically "good girls." The ones at Einstein and Blair have had really good things to say about their schools; they were involved in sports, music, clubs, etc. The one at BCC, on the other hand, broke my heart one night as I drove her home and she blurted that she felt like a total outcast because she was the only daughter of a single mom and they lived in an apartment and the crappy used car she had to drive got made fun of by her richer classmates; she said the class distinctions were making her miserable and she hated BCC. Now, I'm sure you can't paint all of BCC with that broad stroke, but it does suggest there's more to a school than its gossipy surface reputation (whether that be "violent" or "amazing")...

When we moved a couple years ago, we stayed in SS and within the DCC feeders with the above in mind and many other reasons too (enumerated by the Woodside Park poster and others) -- and we could have afforded something plenty nice in Bethesda.

Anonymous wrote:The DCC needs its own forum.

I agree, just like PG schools and AAP in VA had to have separate forums.

The DCC needs its own forum.

I guess their brains are not well-developed.

True. That's why their kids won't survive without being in the schools with the highest test scores.

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Anonymous wrote:

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I live in Woodside Park in Silver Spring, and our home school is Einstein. Woodside Park is one of the best-located neighborhoods in close-in Maryland - my commute downtown is much shorter than my sister's (she lives in Bethesda), and we walk to Metro, the library, and many different shops.

Maybe but it is still silver spring and your kids will go to Einstein... hence compromising in both location and quality.

Shorter PP#1: I love my neighborhood.
Shorter PP#2: You shouldn't.

Good grief.

It's apparently incomprehensible to PP that Silver Spring could be someone's preference over Bethesda. Add me to the list of folks that will choose Silver Spring even though we could afford "further west".

This same conversation gets played out on this forum repeatedly. It is (literally) impossible for people west of Silver Spring to fathom that we LIKE it here and that we LIKE the schools. I guess their brains are not well-developed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I live in Woodside Park in Silver Spring, and our home school is Einstein. Woodside Park is one of the best-located neighborhoods in close-in Maryland - my commute downtown is much shorter than my sister's (she lives in Bethesda), and we walk to Metro, the library, and many different shops.

Maybe but it is still silver spring and your kids will go to Einstein... hence compromising in both location and quality.

Shorter PP#1: I love my neighborhood.
Shorter PP#2: You shouldn't.

Good grief.

It's apparently incomprehensible to PP that Silver Spring could be someone's preference over Bethesda. Add me to the list of folks that will choose Silver Spring even though we could afford "further west".

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I live in Woodside Park in Silver Spring, and our home school is Einstein. Woodside Park is one of the best-located neighborhoods in close-in Maryland - my commute downtown is much shorter than my sister's (she lives in Bethesda), and we walk to Metro, the library, and many different shops.

Maybe but it is still silver spring and your kids will go to Einstein... hence compromising in both location and quality.

Shorter PP#1: I love my neighborhood.
Shorter PP#2: You shouldn't.

Good grief.

Maybe but it is still silver spring and your kids will go to Einstein... hence compromising in both location and quality.

I believe PP's point is that Woodside is far from a compromise in location. In fact, in many ways it is an ideal location.

A place is not a "compromise of both location and quality" if it is your community, your friends, your home. My children have been born and raised in this neighborhood and have a lifetime of good memories, friends all up and down the street, at the pool, at church, at soccer, and at karate. We are no more compromising to live here than people in Philadelphia are compromising because they don't live in New York. This is our home. Every single one of the mean and nasty comments on here have come from people outside our neighborhood, so I think we chose well indeed.

Anonymous wrote:Sherweed, Northweed, Blairijuana, Whiteman, Wonton, Crimestein (did I miss any?) What can we learn from this? High school students love nicknames that make their school sound badass. Sorry Whitman and Wootton, there is no hope to make you sound badass.

Typically it isn't a good idea to call your future bosses a name anyway.