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Are you implying that everyone who lives in Bethesda/Potomac is rich?  If you stretched your budget to buy a house for $500K or $600K in one of these neighborhoods a few years ago you are not rich by Mont. County standards.  Selling that house and paying all the taxes and fees to buy a house in SS would be beyond the means of most of the people I know.  Perhaps I should have planned for the eventuality that my child would not be adequately served in his home school and would be accepted into and want to attend a middle school magnet program.  I didn't have a crystal ball then.  If my child then does not get into a high school magnet like Blair would you suggest I am "rich" enough to then sell my home in SS (pay those taxes, fees and realtor fees again) and move back to Bethesda?  Think before you throw words like "entitled" around.  There is a lot of reverse snobbery on this forum.  I wouldn't care except when it is used to dismiss the concerns I might have for my child's education.[/quote]

I am implying (in fact, I am explicitly saying) that most people who live in Bethesda/Potomac are affluent. Because they are. If you can stretch your budget to buy a house for $500,000 or $600,000, you are affluent. It doesn't matter that there are lots of people in Montgomery County who have more money than you. That doesn't make you non-affluent. It makes them even more affluent.

And yes, if you think that the affluent people who can afford to live in the areas that go to the best (by reputation) schools in Montgomery County should also get great access to the magnet schools, that's basically the definition of entitled. If your son gets into the middle school magnet program, then you decide whether it's better for him to have a long commute and go to the magnet school or to have a short commute and stay in his home school, just like most other people in Montgomery County. 
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Yes the "W" schools tend to be better than the rest and that is one reason why housing (and property taxes) are higher in these areas.  If your child is above average they will probably have a better experience in a "W" school where they will have a large peer group and plenty of advanced course offerings.  But if you have a child who is in the top 5% they will not be adequately served in any regular MCPS school.  The magnet schools exist to serve THIS population regardless of their parents' socioeconomic status.  I fail to see how penalizing these children helps children in another part of the county.  It is just mean spirited.  btw the median household income in MoCo is around $100K and the median value of owner occupied housing which is close to 70% of housing in the county, is $460K (U.S. Census Bureau 2008-2012).  If you are implying that the fifty percent of homeowners whose houses are worth more than that are the 'elite' your definition of elite is different from mine.  [/quote]

The 5% are not being penalized.  The school district had to choose somewhere to house these programs and they chose a location that made sense for the county as a whole, not these particular children, but the good overall.  There is nothing mean spirited about the location.  Magnet schools throughout the country are placed in schools that are not the richest in the district to improve the schools that house them.  [/quote]

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