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[quote=Anonymous]I have a child who attended ES HGC and MS magnet, now at a "good" West county school.  While we love that DC is at the neighborhood school, which everyone says is very strong and has tons of AP classes, there is no comparison when it comes to the level of intellectual challenge.

There is something special about having a large peer group in the classroom which is intellectually fast, motivated and hard-working, and having teachers that know it and exploited.

Our "high quality" HS is extremely boring and easy for DC.   Teachers are continually discouraging or missing high performing or high ability students because they simply don't know how to recognize them.

That said, we moved to this cluster as a safety net -- getting into the magnet programs can be a bit of a crap shoot since there are many more qualified kids than there are seats.  It was a tough choice at the HS level whether to allow DC to apply to a HS magnet or insist on home school because the magnet is very far away.  The extra 2 hours a day are not worth the trade off of intellectual challenge in HS, for us.   
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