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The magnet experience includes a strong peer group (ideally the very best students drawn from all over the school district), teachers who are trained and experienced in teaching this population, an enriched curriculum that integrates related disciplines.  So at Eastern when 6th grade children are learning about the Russian revolution in their magnet World Studies class they would be reading Animal Farm in their magnet English class and they would be reading several books that deal with an Utopia theme in their Literature and the Humanities magnet class.  They would then do projects in each of these classes that might be linked to each other.  They would probably also do a thematically linked project in their magnet Media class.  
The experience at a magnet middle school does not compare to the experience in an enriched class or two in a regular middle school even if you have a strong peer group.[/quote]

Sure it compares. They're both experiences in taking enriched/advanced classes in middle school.

Alternatively, one might with equal validity say: the experience of taking two enriched/advanced classes (one in humanities, one in math) with a strong peer group in your home community middle school doesn't compare with the experience of taking three enriched/advanced classes in either humanities or math (but not both) with a strong peer group in a scary gang middle school a long bus ride away halfway across the county.[/quote]

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