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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just checked my Eastern magnet program directory and there are 11 pages of Silver Spring addresses vs. 7 pages of addresses from the rest of the catchment area: Bethesda, C. Chase, Potomac, Rockville, Olney, Burtonsville, Gaithersburg, Kensington.  So unless you think there are 60% more qualified kids in Silver spring, I think the location does disadvantage kids who live far away from the MS magnet programs which are both located in the same area.[/quote]

[b]You are missing one of the reasons that magnets were created - to bring higher achieving kids into higher poverty schools[/b].

In my opinion, he far bigger disparity is the quality of the non-magnet middle schools in w schools vs. east county. Many families in silver spring see the magnets as a way out of a not so great school. I think access to high quality regular middle schools more than makes up for the distance to a magnet that your kid may or may not get into.[/quote]

Should that really be the goal of a magnet?[/quote]
+1.  I don't think it should be the goal of a magnet program for academically advanced kids.
Also if you are in an advanced class in a silver spring middle school like SSI or Newport Mill or Sligo you will have a peer group that is comparable/the same as the peer group in a "W" school and the curriculum IS the same.[/quote]

But there are no advanced classes in middle school anymore except math and English. I like east county schools, but this is my biggest concern for my kids education in silver spring. I think your comment does apply in high school.

I think the history of the magnets is that they are a fairly non controversial way to integrate schools. I'm not sure how well it works in practice, but it seems to have boosted Blair's reputation.[/quote]

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