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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a number of white / Asian gifted kids at the W schools who choose to not apply because of the time it takes to travel back and forth from the magnet schools.  Our schools could be better regarding challenging programs, but staying at our home schools provide other opportunities for after school activities.  Kids need to be well rounded and academics is just one part of the equation.  Why waste 2 hours of everyday on a bus?[/quote]
Perhaps but there are also lots of kids from the W schools who don't think it is a "waste" of time to get to the magnet programs.
Here are the stats again. Look at exhibit B4 which gives the number of students from each high school that opt to enroll in a magnet program.  There are 44 kids from Wooton, 23 from Winston Churchill, 17 from Walter Johnson.  Only 11 from BCC perhaps because they also offer an IB program.  Your argument might apply to Whitman (only 9) which is quite far away.  The best represented high school at Blair SMAC is Wooton- these kids are willing to commute past RMIB (which is closer to the Wooton neighborhood) to attend SMAC in Silver Spring because the program matches their interests.  The average Whitman SAT score in 2015 was 1872/2400, for Wooton it was 1830/2400.  Not a huge difference there but a big difference in magnet enrollment.
 http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/info/choice/Appendix-B-Program-data-tables.pdf[/quote]

I bet the difference between Wootton and Whitman student's interests in magnet schools can be explained entirely by Asain students. Asian students and their parents will take the bus to go to magnet schools as long as they think they are getting a better education.[/quote]

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