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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Social kids do not do well in the magnet programs outside of their own cluster.  Losing their friends, the long drives, the issues with their own new school all make for a crappy experience.  The kids that do well are the geeks and introverts that never fit in their own cluster schools to begin with, and now have some introverts to be introverted with.  They found their people and never look back longingly at their old cluster. [/quote]

Generalize much? With my n=2 kids, I could write a generalization the other way. Social kids do great at their home elementary schools, transition to HGC without a problem, and then transition to magnet middle schools and make new friends while keeping the old friends they had at home ES and HGC. I could add another n=1 for one of those kids who transitioned to magnet HS and has made new friends there while still hanging out with the friends from ES, HGC, and magnet MS. Not to mention the friends made from summer camp. Which is not to say that the various transitions weren't without difficulties, including some social angst, but it is 100% false -- from my limited sample size -- that they had "crappy experiences" or that they did not do well in their home ES in the first instance. And broadening my sample size to include the peers I know who went to their programs, I'd be hard-pressed to identify a plurality, let alone a majority, of geeks and introverts.[/quote]

You are one of the insufferable parents the PP was talking about earlier, aren't you?  [/quote]
Insufferable to push back on an obnoxious post?  [/quote]

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