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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I am going to guess that the people who are responding that manget programs are not as necessarily have not had their kids in a magnet program.  I like the idea of universal testing.  I like the idea that the few kids who are outliers to their lower performing home schools are now given greater opportunities to access the magnet program.  I even like the cohort idea and keeping the higher achieving kids local to their home middle schools.  What I don't like is the lack of a truer "magnet" program that connects the courses together.  One of the nice things at the HGC is how the curriculum was linked which allow the kids to be creative with the production of their work.  Also, some of the kids we met at the CES/HGC are incredibly intelligent, something that I feel cannot be trained through any type of prepping.[/quote]
I agree with the last poster [/quote]

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