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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The school has resolutely failed in communication, lied to parents repeatedly and ignored any feedback, presented flawed data, collected biased surveys and just gone ahead and done what they want to anyway. The principal does not support the magnet and has done her best to drive away some of the best teaching staff.  Now she plans to sit back and watch while the arts programming is decimated by this change and magnet students flee back to their home schools.[/quote]

In other words, kids are supposed to be there for exceptional opportunities in STEM, but will leave over music —which is incredibly easy to supplement at home and most kids who are serious about music take outside lessons anyway. Sure, Jan.[/quote]

Yes. Because they can still do advanced math at their local school and the science curriculum is basically the same. Nothing really all that advanced. And computer science isn’t much to write home about. What they really gain by going there is being in class with other smart kids and not the usual mcps dum dum population. But, without the extra perks, that isn’t enough for a lot of parents to justify upending the family further.

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What do you mean the science curriculum is the same? It is a science magnet.

And the magnet math is definitely more rigorous than home school advanced math. It has extensions that go beyond the base curriculum.

- Parent whose kid never got off the magnet waitlist but who would have loved a spot. [/quote]

Different poster but the science curriculum used to be different for magnet but a couple of years ago that changed and it’s essentially the same now with perhaps a little more depth if they can cover the required content quickly enough to get to other stuff. There used to be a fantastic forensic science module in 7th, for example, that got dropped. [/quote]

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