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[quote=Anonymous]Hi everyone, I would really appreciate your input and advice on this.  We are thinking of moving houses, and our children are in ES currently.  Here are our two options:

1.  Stay in our wonderful, walkable neighborhood where ES is great, but MS/HS are not good, and plan to go the Magnet Program route to avoid local schools.
2.  Move to an area where the kids would be assigned to Churchill/Wooton/Whitman clusters.

For the sake of argument, let's assume magnet admission can happen (I understand that it's probably its own can of worms, and is not at all guaranteed, but let's do away with that issue for now and just say we can go to magnet programs/schools in MoCo for middle and high school).  The question then is:

What's better: a 'good' high school in the area, or the magnet program in a not-so-good school?  (What would you recommend we aim for?  Do you have kids in magnet MS/HS programs and how do you think that compares to the regular 'good' MS/HS? What would you do if you were us and had to do it over again?)  If you have comments on a specific MS, or a specific magnet program in the area, please share those as well.....

Thanks!!!!

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