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Reply to "TPMS vs. Hoover Middle School"
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[quote=Anonymous]Even if one buys the premises that a slightly advanced curriculum in a mixed area with a stacked student peer group in the specific classrooms is better than an affluent middle school with a high standards community and a stacked peer population. Is the marginal exposure to advance ABCs and 123s (that is often soon brain dumped) and a middle school resume worth the hours spent commuting daily while being extracted from the neighborhood and community? Haven’t met many adults who state “if only my middle school resume was stronger” but I have met quite a few that talk about the types of enrichments they did like sports, dancing ect. Two hours a day is 10 hours a week coupled to a heavy homework load, IMHO it is pretty unimaginative if going to piney brach road daily is the best most productive thing you can do with your time. Hardly any of the magnet kids end up going to Ives or super elite colleges even if they continue on though HS anyway so what exactly are you getting with all of that. There are a million ways to get into a good college esp if you can afford IB for Hoover. Focus on living not striving, you can take a level math in summer school if you really want them to get ahead. A few compressed weeks beats uprooting one’s life and community.[/quote]
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