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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am not sure why people seem to be being willfully obtuse about your question.  I suspect that the magnets developed as they did so that the magnet kids would necessarily have a significant number of classes with the home school kids.  People think that is beneficial academically at least for the home school kids, and socially perhaps for everyone. It might have been a political compromise to get magnets at all. [b] In high school, kids who are good all around can go to the Richard Montgomery IB magnet.[/b]  [/quote]

RMIB is a great program, but does not address the needs of a highly-able math student.  So, it doesn't really cover kids who are truly "good all around."[/quote]

Just curious, what do you think the best public school option is for that type of kid? Blair SMAC leaves the kid in history and English classes with everyone else (with many of the top English/history kids in the home school siphoned off to the CAP program), while RMIB has all the magnet kids together for all the major classes, albeit with not the same level of STEM classes offered as at Blair SMAC.  Do you have some advice you can share?[/quote]

If your kid is highly able in math, then really, Blair is the only appropriate place. AP History, AP Literature, AP language, and the like are all available to the magnet students.

Your comments suggest that the only other highly able students at the high school are the CAP students, but this is not really the case.  A student who is highly able in lots of different areas can get excellent history and English instruction at Blair.

My son was admitted to CAP, the Blair magnet, and RMIB. He chose the Blair magnet because it is not possible to get the Blair magnet math curriculum at any other school in the county.  He really loves the magnet, and is having a great experience there. He has a lot of friends in CAP, and commented to me recently then it would have been more fun to be in CAP, but that he thinks he is getting a better education by having chosen the math/science magnet.[/quote]

PP, I've heard of some kids enrolling in CAP (since only CAP kids can take CAP classes), but then taking at least some of the magnet STEM classes.  What do you think of that option?  Do you know kids who have done that?   Is there something about taking all the magnet classes as a group that makes it difficult for someone to take all the magnet math classes, for example?  Or are such kids not allowed to take some of the classes, maybe it depends on enrollment that year?
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