Blair Magnet Program

[Anonymous]

Many from Eastern Magnet funnel into the CAP program at Blair of Richard Montgomery IB.

[Anonymous]

My impression is many magnet of special program students (e.g., CAP) in these programs are quite motivated. Motivated students tend to do more "homework" than not.

[Anonymous]

Yup, it's her. This thread is officially dead.

???WTF ???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My impression is many magnet of special program students (e.g., CAP) in these programs are quite motivated. Motivated students tend to do more "homework" than not.

Yes. In fact, magnet and CAP students are selected partly on grades and teacher recs - criteria that tend to select for the hard workers.

[Anonymous]

My DC will attend Magnet this fall also. I'm interested in more feedback about the homework load.

[Anonymous]

Our DC is in the magnet program and we feel the homework load is too much. DC spends most week days doing homework from the time DC comes home from school until bedtime with a small break for dinner. The weekends are spent doing homework as well with a few hours here and there for small activities. The homework load has cut into family time and extra-curricular interests as well. There are positive aspects of the magnet program, but the intensity of the homework load we believe is unhealthy (physically and mentally) and does not allow for adequate time for teens to pursue other interests or to socialize which is important during these years. It is unfortunate that the program is not more balanced. The students are so smarts and many have interests and/or talents outside of academics which they should be encouraged to pursue especially during these formative years, but the amount of homework makes this impossible. I wish that the teachers and administrators of the program would recognize this problem and review the homework issue and not just give so much homework because these are smart kids and to set the program a part from "regular" school. In summary, the amount of homework has had a negative impact on our family and most importantly on DC. I am also interested to hear what other magnet families have experienced.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]Our DC is in the magnet program and we feel the homework load is too much. DC spends most week days doing homework from the time DC comes home from school until bedtime with a small break for dinner. The weekends are spent doing homework as well with a few hours here and there for small activities. The homework load has cut into family time and extra-curricular interests as well. There are positive aspects of the magnet program, but the intensity of the homework load we believe is unhealthy (physically and mentally) and does not allow for adequate time for teens to pursue other interests or to socialize which is important during these years. It is unfortunate that the program is not more balanced. The students are so smarts and many have interests and/or talents outside of academics which they should be encouraged to pursue especially during these formative years, but the amount of homework makes this impossible. I wish that the teachers and administrators of the program would recognize this problem and review the homework issue and not just give so much homework because these are smart kids and to set the program a part from "regular" school. In summary, the amount of homework has had a negative impact on our family and most importantly on DC. I am also interested to hear what other magnet families have experienced.[/quote]


Thanks. I would like to hear from other families also.

[Anonymous]

Hi I just came across this page and I had a few questions for the people how are at blair or who have kids at blair. I got accepted into blair but i had a question about it. Are the concepts taught at blair hard to understand and comprehend for someone who went to regular middle school (robert frost) and took honors geometry right now in 8th grade? Or can all students at blair even if they aren't the smartest in the whole magnet program understand what is being taught and are being able to keep up?