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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When everyone refers to "Magnet MS" does that refer to the middle school highly gifted centers?  Or does that include the middle school consortium magnets?[/quote]

There is no such thing as a "middle school highly gifted center."  There are two competitive-entry magnets:  Takoma Park Middle Math/Science/Computer Science, and Eastern Middle School Humanities.

My child went to the TPMS magnet.[/quote]

[b]There actually is such a thing as a middle school highly gifted center.[/b] There is one set for the downcounty (Takoma Park MS for math/science/computers and Eastern MS for humanities) and one set for the upcounty (both at Roberto Clemente MS).

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No, there isn't.  There are subject-area-specific magnets, the ones you cite - which are the same as the ones I cited above.[/quote]

The program at Roberto Clemente MS is "the Upcounty Center Program for the Highly Gifted".

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/middle/humanities.aspx
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/middle/math-sci-compsci.aspx

The elementary school programs are "the Elementary Center Programs for the Highly Gifted".

HGC, HGC.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/specialprograms/elementary/[/quote]

Ok.

And TPMS and Eastern:  Magnets.  Not HGC, magnets.[/quote]

And in any case, unlike the elementary school programs, they are subject-matter specific, which makes them altogether different.[/quote]

FWIW, Clemente is a "double magnet", i.e. it houses one program identical to Takoma MS Math and Science Magnet and another program identical to Eastern's Humanities Magnet.  Students must apply separately to each program.  I don't think there's any dual enrollment in both magnets at Clemente, but they are both housed at the same school; that's why they call Clemente a "Upcounty Center Program for the Highly Gifted".

But, Clemente as an "HGC" is different from the elementary HGCs.  At the elementary level, the HGC students are all grouped together for math, reading, social studies, and science, with possible breakouts into subgroups in those classes.  There may be a few non-magnet students included in magnet math, but this really depends on the numbers of non-magnet, higher math students at each elementary.

By contrast, at the middle school level at Clemente, the "magnet" students are not grouped with each other for all their classes, like at the elementary level.  The humanities magnet students take their core humanities classes together.  The math/science magnet students take their core classes together.  But, otherwise for the non-magnet classes, the students are mixed with the "comprehensive" program students.  Humanities students may still end up with a significant proportion of magnet students in their math class, because the humanities students are generally bright and often accelerated in math also.  Similarly, the math/science magnet students may end up group with a lot of other magnet students in advanced or GT English, but their will be other non-magnet students as well.

So, in a way, you are both right and both wrong. [/quote]

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