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[quote=Anonymous]You have to be clear-eyed about the pluses and minuses of Eastern, so it's good you're asking questions OP. I would second most everything already stated. The opportunities are better than in some of the county's other MS, so there's that, but your child should also not expect much help if they run into issues or challenges. This means you'll need to play helicopter parent or accept that there will be Bs and Cs that will likely hurt their prospects for magnet high schools. Some teachers are really fantastic, and carry the program. Others are not, and are protected by being housed in a unique middle school curriculum that effectively gives them free reign with content and grading and little real oversight. In other words, mediocrity in teaching also thrives there.

As others have stated, it helps if your child is "quirky" and into theater, they will feel like they found their people. As is typical of group projects, there will be some students doing all the work and others who are coasting. Our son didn't experience peer pressure with group work,  his experience was more just that it was stressful trying to drag everyone over the finish line. Also, ever since the change to lottery system, there are many more peers there who aren't interested in being there, or even school in general (lots more ditching and hanging out in bathrooms). So the general cohort experience has also been reduced to what it was before.[/quote]

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