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[quote=Anonymous]My kid is at TPMS, where there have been a few gang members. I've heard that almost every MoCo MS and HS has some gang activity.

But honestly, it hasn't been an issue at all for DC. It's not like the gang members are checking your kid for the right tat at the door. The gang members will probably not be in your kid's magnet class and, if they are in the magnet, this means their behavior in the classroom isn't likely to be a problem. A year or two ago somebody tagged the back of the TPMS school building, but again, this didn't affect the magnet kids' experience in the classroom, or even out of the classroom. DC tells me that most TPMS kids look down on the gang members as losers, generally short losers, who need to join something. Which, I suppose, is a pretty good assessment.

I'm definitely glad I didn't let the reports of gang activity at TPMS deter us from sending DC, because the program is fantastic. I can't speak for Eastern, but I would expect much the same holds true re magnet kids being fairly untouched by any violence. The kids I know who went to Eastern are all graduated without being personally affected by physical violence, and they seem to have loved the program.[/quote]

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