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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]...(c) my understanding is [b]the 25 slots were offered with the goal of improving the magnet's ties to the rest of the school and the larger neighborhood.[/b][/quote]
...RE your third point, why doesn't e.g. the Eastern MS magnet offer such an advantage to its cluster population?  Or the HGCs, for that matter?[/quote]
PP, your post got me curious, so I went to the Cold Spring ES page for its HGC program.  Here's what it says: "Cold Spring is home to one of the six Centers for the Highly Gifted in Montgomery County Public Schools. [u]Selected students from the elementary schools in the Wootton and Churchill Clusters attend our Center[/u]."  I don't know much about the HGC programs, but this sure makes it sound like that program is even more limited than the Takoma program.  Indeed, if Cold Spring is representative of the other magnet/HGC programs, it seems like you should be praising the Takoma program for its willingness to include out-of-cluster applicants.

Like I said though, I'm just learning about these programs, so maybe I am misinterpreting. [/quote]

No, you are misinterpreting.  The HGC programs draw from a given cluster (or in your example, clusters), and students who are admitted attend the given designated school for their particular elementary school cache.  My child e.g. in the Lucy Barnsley HGC must attend there by virtue of where our home school is located; she cannot attend e.g. Pinecrest.

No preference is given to students in that cache.  All applicants compete equally.

The Takoma MS magnet program is open to students from all over the county.  But.  For 25 slots, preference is given to students in a given zone.

I don't understand why this is the case, or what it means when PP says it was decided to do it this way to "further neighborhood relations."  By that logic, all of these competitive-entrance programs should "further neighborhood relations" by giving preference to immediate-neighborhood students.  But, they don't.  Only TPMS does.[/quote]

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