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The hostility is toward a particular poster who claims to be the mother of a PG kid, whose kid apparently never went to a private, and whose MO is to insist that sending a gifted kid to a private school is to doom said kid to a life of intellectual mediocrity.  Lots of the hostility she has faced has been from posters who have gifted kids in privates and who point out that their kids are getting excellent educations. [/quote]

To be fair, she seems to think very little of magnets, either. She said the local blog on a PG kid in the Takoma magnet gave a good idea of what PG kids face in MoCo. I was the poster who said my magnet kid liked the teachers who were trashed in the blog, plus I wouldn't have a problem with the science teacher telling my kid not to read novels in class, or with another teacher marking my kid down for forgetting to bring in an assignment, and I certainly wouldn't convene a meeting with said teachers and the magnet director over it, like the blogger did. But my point is, if PP likes this blog, then she must share at least some of the blog's really negative attitude toward magnets.[/quote]

I wrote the post you are referencing.  I have to correct you here.  I absolutely love the MCPS magnet programs and I'm a product of it myself!  I enjoyed the blog because she kept close tabs on the political climate in the county as it related to educational issues.  I don't recall too many posts disparaging actual teachers but honestly if they were there I probably just skimmed past it because I wasn't interested.  Usually I would check in to the blog to see what was happening with the "challenge every child" movement and other such things.  Not to sound mean but I couldn't really care less about what her children where doing in chemistry class.

Also, to address some of the other posts I have to say I have a great deal of respect for the Independent schools in this area.  I've never disparaged them or called them mediocre.  In fact I have clarified that fact a number of times.

I have to say that the strong emotional response to my posts by some folks is a little bewildering.  People read into them far too much and make many assumptions.

Can we just have differing opinions without it escalating?  I've made a point in these threads not to engage in drama.  Unfortunately it didn't prevent some people from getting worked up about perceived slights from way back to who knows when that some anonymous poster made which may or may not have been me.[/quote]

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