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[quote=Anonymous]I think the magnet and CAP are bubbles of a sort.  Without attaching a value to whether being in a bubble is a good or bad thing, I think it's objectively true that your kid won't take many classes with non-magnet kids.  Your kid takes 3-4 magnet or CAP classes with the other magnet or CAP kids.  For non-magnet classes, your kid is automatically enrolled in honors or AP classes.  The only classes your kid will definitely take with non-magnet kids is the required year of gym, maybe health and tech (unless your kid does these online over the summer), and electives like art and music.

That said, DC has never complained about the non-magnet kids.  Once a fight broke out near DC, but DC laughed about it.  And that's one incident in a few years.  I think the fear of gangs is over-blown.

If your kid is a risk-taker, or include to drugs or gang-type behavior, then of course your kid can find other kids who will lead him on.  But this is true at just about any school, and if your kid wants to do drugs at a top private, he or she will find other kids to buy the drugs from (I say this as a graduate of a top private in my hometown).  [/quote]

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