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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our home school is Wootton HS.  Can you tell me about your experience with applying and/or attending one of the alternative high school programs offered in MCPS like at Richard Montgomery or Blair. I can't find any info on Thomas Edison HS.  Do they group students with peers from the pool of applicants?  Or do accepted students have classes with students that is their home school, too?  I've heard that is a drawback with attending the Takoma Park magnet.  The magnet student only has two classes with other magnet students and then all other classes are with Takoma Park home school students.  Just want to see what the peer group would be and if these "specialty" programs are really worth the sacrifice we would make as a family with the driving, etc....   [/quote]

1.  Do you have a child that is currently in Elementary School or Middle School?  
2.  If you have a child in ES that feeds into Wooton, then they will be able to apply for Takoma Park Math/Science Magnet, Eastern Humanities Magnet, or lottery into one of the focused middle schools (Argyle, Loiderman, Parkland).  
3.  Takoma Park and Eastern has busing for the magnet kids.  The lottery schools do not.  The bus ride from your neck of the woods is long, but kids do it.  Families also carpool.
4.  If you have a child in a MS that feeds into Wooton,  then they will be able to apply to Blair STEM or Richard Montgomery IB programs.  Both are highly competitive.  
5.  If you have a child already at Eastern or Takoma Park in the magnet program, they are eligible to apply to the Blair CAP program - a highly competitive humanities-focused magnet. Otherwise, your child is not eligible to apply to Blair CAP because your child is not in the DownCounty Consortium of schools.
6. Wheaton's Biomedical program, [b]  Einstein's Visual Arts Program[/b], etc. are only available to children in the Downcounty consortium who apply and are admitted.

For all magnet programs the children are grouped together, although in high school they will take classes with other kids not in their program, and to some extent the same is true in the middle schools.  Whether the programs are "worth the sacrifice" is a family-specific call, and involves a lot of variables - schedules, sports activities, the type of child, the availability of resources at neighborhood school, the adaptability of the child to new situations, etc.[/quote]

Einstein Visual Art Center is County wide. If admitted in, you’re child has a option of being a student at Einstein or commuting.[/quote]

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