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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to see if we should accept our child’s spot for the humanities magnet at Eastern MS. We were planning for our child to attend an Archdiocese of DC parochial school until this offer from Eastern came. Anyone in DCUM has experience with Eastern’s magnet program and an Archdiocese parochial school, and have thoughts on this?

Or in the alternative, anyone knows how MCPS’ Math 6+ or AIM curriculum at MCPS compares versus the Math curriculum at Archdiocese of DC parochial schools?

TIA![/quote]

The question of whether you should accept it is easy:  you should accept the spot while you sort it out.  You can always decline later once you have more information and the spot will be offered to someone else in the lottery pool.

My child is in the Humanities program and I would recommend it without reservation for the reasons others have stated here.  It's the only MCPS middle school to offer an enriched literacy curriculum (while not exactly the TPMS magnet, students at other middle schools do have the opportunity for advanced math, at least). All of my child's teachers have been excellent (don't know who this "one bad male" teacher is that PP mentioned - in any event, I don't think my child had them).

That said, it's an urban public school, and likely to be a very different environment than Catholic school.  Suggest you look on the private school boards for information about the specific parochial school you are considering as you are unlikely to find much here.  [/quote]

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