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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have only my anecdotal evidence from families I have known at the schools. The kids who went to ER were brighter and more motivated than their peers, but not exceptionally gifted. The kids at Blair are going to invent something or cure a disease some day. Blair had something like 40 National Merit Semifinalists last year. The kids I knew who went to ER were bright, hard working kids. The kids at Blair were off the charts gifted. Even if you moved to Montgomery County, your child would ave to apply to the Blair magnet and compete against extremely bright kids. Your child might be extremely bright too, and get in. But i wouldn't move with the assumption that he or she would get in.[/quote]

+1 and very diplomatic, PP.

I'd say this, also anecdotally. The kids I know who attended the STEM magnet at Blair were either off the charts gifted, as you say, or recently arrived from places with much a stronger math curriculum than we have in the United States.

Either way, I think OP should decide whether Roosevelt is better than the [b]regular[/b] program at whatever school she would move to in MCPS. That is, would regular Blair or regular BCC or whatever be better than Roosevelt? Because the default should be that no child can count on being accepted to the Blair program. [/quote]

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