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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are several years out of TPES, but when we went through the program, there was no way to tell who was magnet and who was not. The specialized "extra" wasn't much. For earlier poster who mentioned the numbers, those are the numbers for the middle school, not the elementary program. My child is now in grade 6, but 5 years ago, about 25 out of boundary kids were accepted. N[b]ot sure about the others, but mine was definitely a child who could not get his needs met in his home school. [/b]Agree that the same isn't necessarily true for the in-bounds Takoma kids who get into magnet (based on knowledge of kids/families from our many years in the local schools).

In future years, the GT coordinator told me that she was regularly counseling families who were in a similar situation to ours to apply. After 2nd, kids flow into PBES or go to home school. Then, at grade 4, the highly accelerated kids often leave and go over to the HGC programs. Of all the kids who got into the HGC in my son's year, I know of only one local child who stayed at Piney Branch.[/quote]

This isn't the first time I've heard this, and that makes sense.  But I do wonder how the county/TPES justify a county-wide magnet program that pulls so heavily from the home school.  I'm sure folks zoned for Sligo or Rock Creek Forest would like the same consideration when it comes to the language immersion programs.  [/quote]

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