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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is laughable. The county is expanding these programs. [/quote]
Expansion is what they did when they opened Poolesville   That is a coherent Magnet program (multiple STEM classes for a cohort pulled from many high school clusters). What they are doing now is offering one enriched humanities and one enriched math class for some middle schools [/quote]

So what would call it?  They have expanded access to the enriched curriculum at the magnet level and didn't close the magnet programs.  MCPS also added CES centers at the ES level.  That is expansion to me.[/quote]

+1  I don't get why people are fighting tooth and nail for their kids to be bused to a magnet.  If there's a critical mass in the home school-educate them there.  (And spare me the, it will be bad for the truly gifted--this is public school, the truly truly gifted who are rare can find a private option.)[/quote]

Exactly.

When I was a kid, I was tested and found to have an IQ in the high 140s. I mention this only to say the following: I did not attend any magnet programs in my K-8 years. I did participate in advanced classes in MS, but they were for approximately the top 20% of the class. For high school I went to Andover because my public HS would not have been challenging enough.

From what I can tell, an IQ in the high 140s appears in about one out of every 1157 people. Even assuming the DC area has a higher concentration of high IQ kids than most places, I just don't think there are more than a very small handful of kids whose needs can't be served with enriched classes that scoop up about the top 15-20%, at least as far as K-8 is concerned. [/quote]

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