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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would any parent send their kids to a watered down “magnet”.  Won’t happen. Look at what they tried to do the IB programs at Watkins mill and Kennedy.  [/quote]

They'll go if the host school offers better opportunities than the home school and they can swing the commute.

We are zoned for Einstein. I have hope that Einstein will be a good place for my DC, especially since it will be a relatively smaller school. DC is pretty average academically and will probably be well served with standard MCPS courses available at every high school. But BCC and Blair definitely offer a wider variety of courses, and there are public buses to both of these schools with stops near our home. Whitman would probably be too difficult, nor is it the environment I'd want for DC especially away from all their friends.[/quote]

For kids who don't want STEM, Einstein is perfect.[/quote]

Please compare non-STEM advanced courses available at B-CC, next door to Einstein and also with an IB offering, to those available at Einstein.  Which offers more to the Humanities-seeking, academically minded student?  And then what about kids who [i]might want STEM[/i] but assigned to Einstein (whether they focus on STEM or just are well rounded students seeking rigor across the board)?

Are these supposed to hope for magnet admission elsewhere just to have access to advanced coursework that other schools provide to their general population?  Or move?

Or should our public school system be making sure that it delivers educational options in a manner that makes one's home address within the county irrelevant?[/quote]

I don’t need to compare.  What will happen is what happens now.  Kids leave for other schools, go without, Mc or parents move.  [/quote]

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