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Which school best supports children who are advanced academically?
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Anonymous
| No. As is Georgina's habit, she will hide in her Petri dish embarrassed and in search of diversion (e.g., two high school kids). |
Anonymous
| I caution you not to fall for the private school booster (Georgina) modus operandi. Do not kid yourself. This woman from middle America is for real! |
Anonymous
Nah, the two of you (or just you and your sock puppet) are from a local HS, probably Sidwell from other evidence. And frankly, you're not funny. Don't DC private school kids have any sense of humor? Because this is just sad. |
Anonymous
| Since you're on here, maybe you could tell us about the academic and social pressure at places like Sidwell, and what drives lonely kids like yourself to make fake posts on DCUM? |
Anonymous
| Why are putting making accusations vs. Sidwell? My child didn't get in there...but I don't hold a grudge. |
Anonymous
12:47 |
Anonymous
Wow, you've got a real chip on your shoulder. I mentioned GDS because the question was "which school" and CTY not because it was exclusive but because it was a place where "academically advanced" kids from different schools, public and private, meet each other. Also, it served to contextualize and limit the experience that prompted my DC's comment. To the poster who asked about the MoCo magnet/CTY connection. The CTYers are probably a small (and certainly not random)* sample of kids who go to MoCo magnets, but my DC said she was surprised how similar they were and how different from her school friends (also not a random sample), because they were really into the black and white fact stuff (map quiz) which she found somewhat tedious and not into the sociological/economic/philosophical issues that really grabbed her (and that her friends would have been eager to discuss). A number of the kids claimed their parents had made them go to CTY and they didn't want to be there. She said they seemed stressed and competitive and their idea of fun was to do mindless stuff which was the last thing she expected at CTY. One example she mentioned was that when the class went to the college bookstore each week, she was the only one who wanted to look at the books -- the rest just wanted to buy snacks. Her comment was "if this is what smart's supposed to be, I want no part of it." *not a commentary on admissions standards but on expense and on summer plans/preferences. |
Anonymous
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Hmmm, I'm thinking the small number of magnet kids your daughter met were not representative. Also, there are science and communications magnets in MoCo, and which kids were in the CTY camp could go a long way to explaining why their interests were very different from your daughter's.
My kid did private and was thrilled to leave for the magnet. It would be completely wrong to stereotype him and his friends as one-dimensional or uninterested in anything besides memorizing facts. I'm not sure where this is coming from, maybe meeting a handful of kids, but it doesn't speak well of you or your DC. |
Anonymous
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7:32 - wow that was nasty. Sort of like calling all private school kids entitled brats. A mean interpretation might be that you're the one with a chip on your shoulder, unhappy about paying $30K for what others are getting for free.
Anyway, your description doesn't fit any of the magnet kids I know. |
Anonymous
| FWIW, Montgomery County magnet administrators and teachers HATE CTY. So they don't encourage their students to go the CTY route, and I even suspect they discriminate against those who appear in applications to be too CTY oriented. |
Anonymous
| 19:19, mire information please, I'm curious. |
Anonymous
What data or evidence do you have to support this contention? Or do you mean to say MCPS hate parents who may "aggressively" advocate for a challenging curriculum for their children? Many of these children will be a part of CTY at JHU, the TIP program at Duke, NUMATS at Northwestern (Explore) and C-MITES at CMU -- Talent seach programs offering challenging online and campus courses for children with high and challenging expectations. |
Anonymous
| 19:19, I'm curious too. It's true that my MS magnet kid's school doesn't encourage the kids to apply to CTY. Compared to my daughter's school which had the CTY people come to the school to administer the test. |
Anonymous
| We looked at the magnets for 2 children. One was in a ES magnet, going to MS, and the other just to HS. We had teachers at both the MS and the HS, and with particular venom the HS, really denigrate CTY. Also, at the two CTY awards ceremonies we've been to for Maryland, there have been ZERO magnet MS students there, suggesting that they didn't take the CTY tests (SAT for 6, 7, and 8 grades). So on both counts I'm concluding that the MoCo magnets don't like CTY. Helpful? |
Anonymous
| desperately seeking approval on the private school forum...go back to MD public school forum where people care about the magnets. |