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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]So my MS humanities magnet kid has 3 magnet classes, all in humanities, compared to the 2 enriched home-school MS classes, of which 1 is humanities and 1 is math.[/quote]
Yikes. My kid was offered a spot at Eastern and I never thought about the possibility that the more enriched math class that's available at the home middle school wouldn't be offered to Eastern kids. Will the enriched math class be offered next year to Eastern kids?[/quote]

Nope, no enriched classes offered at Eastern or Takoma. It's the magnet, or nothing. [/quote]

Does anyone know whether this might change at Eastern in the next year or two? It is our home school and I currently have a fourth grader.[/quote]

Not that I know of. It seems stupid, really. It would be great if Humanities kids at Eastern could also take enriched math, and vice versa at Takoma. Lots of kids excel at both, and it's kind of a shame to make them specialize at such a young age.

But it would seem that high-scoring EMS and TPMS kids should have a leg up in magnet admissions, since their home school doesn't have anything to offer them in the way of enrichment or support. In-bounds kids who score high in math have slots set aside for them at TPMS, but I'd think that Eastern kids, and high verbal scorers at TPMS, would also have a less explicit advantage. One of the selection criteria is whether appropriate support can be offered at the home school, and these are really the only two schools that don't offer anything extra at all for in-bounds kids. [/quote]

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