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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]MCPS is looking at the cohort of high-scoring kids at the home middle school. As we all know, there are lots of high-scoring kids at middle schools in Bethesda and Potomac. So if it's very important to you for your child to get into a middle-school magnet, and you live in Bethesda and Potomac, you can increase your child's chances by moving to an area where the home middle school has a smaller cohort. [/quote]

Except if your child doesn't make the cut then you have a much bigger problem. There was a Piney Branch poster who shared how upset her son was that all his friends moved up into the CES/magnet classes and he was stuck with all the kids who misbehaved in class and didn't care about school.

Plus many of the white parents in Bethesda and Potomac, historically never opted for the magnet for various reasons (fear of kids going to a crime/high poverty area, long bus rides, interfering with sports, missing friends/social activities etc). Wealthy AA and Latino families haven't wanted to send their kids to the  magnets for the same reasons as the white parents don't, plus they don't want their kids lumped in with the majority of other AA and Latinos are low performing and poor. Historically, the majority of applicants/admits from Bethesda and Potomac have been Asian. The Asians understand that MCPS doesn't want them in the magnets and don't trust that another new criteria wouldn't emerge to reduce their numbers if they moved east.

So yes, there are some white residents in TP and SS that are hoping more wealthy people will move there and bump up their property values because of this change but that isn't happening. People who are leaving are going private, to Howard county or VA.

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Talk about generalizations.

By the way, the majority of Asian-American students in the downcounty MS magnet area don't live in Bethesda or Potomac.[/quote]

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