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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've had two kids go through both Sligo and Eastern.  Eastern is hands down a more rigorous middle school experience, and our child that went to Eastern was definitely very humanities-oriented.  I would not recommend Eastern unless your child enjoys writing or is willing to work on writing.  There is a LOT of work. As a PP said, the media component is something that you can't really get anywhere else.  We were there before the pandemic, so our child went through the full Eastern experience with idrip and the NYC trip, and they loved it.

Math at Eastern was really pretty good and a lot of the humanities magnet kids also took the advanced math levels, some even going to Blair to take Algebra II.

Sligo currently has the AIM (advanced investigations in math) and HIGH (Humanities in Global History(?)) classes, which try to incorporate some of the projects that are in Eastern's magnet program, but it's not the same as being with the Eastern cohort.  Our other child did great at Sligo and is now in a HS magnet program.  So even if you decide to stay in your home school, you're not necessarily ruining your chances of getting into an application-only program in HS.[/quote]

Thanks everyone, and particularly this poster. The direct comparison is helpful.  I hadn't really realized that the magnet would take up the electives.  My kid really isn't humanities oriented.  He's a bright kid, and he'll work hard on whatever assigned, but it sounds like time on reading and writing would replace classes he's more interested in like art or computer science or Spanish, and that the increased homework might prevent him from continuing things he does by choice.

People mention diversity as having pros and cons, but I think the communities served by Sligo and Eastern are pretty similar.  Have you found that to be true?  Transportation is less of an issue for us than it is for more distant families. [/quote]

If he’s not really into the humanities then the humanities magnet will not be a good fit for him. My kid got into both programs but chose Eastern over TPMS because of a definite preference. And at Eastern the math coordinator was great and let my 6th grader into Algebra. [/quote]

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