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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a tech magnet with all courses available to all students. Our choice to turn down another is due in a couple days. I have yet to talk to ANYBODY through friends and acquaintances who has had a child actually go to Arglye. Anyone on DCUM have kids that go there?

Of note is that it's not a merit-based magnet. I am worried it's a rough area/school with the challenges that come along with that. Atleast at merit-based magnet, the peer group in a handful of classes is driven and attentive more than the regular classes. 
Desperate to hear any feedback at all. [/quote]

My son is in 8th grade I have driven him every day and picked him up so yep you have to factor that into it. You can join carpools.   It is not a rough area just a diverse area.  For transparency we are Caucasian family not much diversity in the family.  My son loved some classes and not others but the elective choices are amazing.  You will not get so many tech courses in your local MS.  I think the administration is good but not great.  My son has made many friends and really wanted to stay going to Down Consortium schools once he graduates.  The one reason we agreed to it is because going to Argyle allowed him to apply to more criterion based High Schools four in fact.   He was just accepted into the competitive Wheaton  Project Lead The Way Engineering program.  At the open house I saw lots of Magnet Middle schools kids there from Tacoma Park so going to a Lottery MS can pay off.  Just because the area looks diverse does not make the kids rough.  My son will now have a 30 kid "magnet" cohort but trust me he is more excited that so many kids he knows from Argyle are going to Wheaton.  [/quote]

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