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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b][quote=Anonymous]The smart move would be Silver Spring, specifically the area of East Silver Spring that abuts Takoma Park and is within the Takoma Park Middle School boundary area.

Here's why:

[/b]There are two HGCs that serve those neighborhoods. The competition to get a slot in either is not as great as it is in other corners of the county where seemingly every kid is a super-achiever.[b]

Takoma Park Middle School reserves 25 slots in its vaunted math magnet for in-boundary kids. If your daughter turns out to be an advanced math student, she'll have a far better than average chance at getting one of those slots. And even if she doesn't, TPMS is one of the best middle schools in the county by any metric.

And if it turns out that Humanities are her thing and she were to land a spot in the Eastern Middle School magnet, it would be a 5-10 minute bus ride from home, rather than an hour.

If you just do what the PP suggests and look at minority percentages on the At A Glance sheets, you'll miss the forest for the trees.

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I find this hard to believe. [/quote]

[b]It is patently false[/b].[/quote]

How so? You can't argue PP's point about the in-boundary benefit for the TPMS magnet. That's the best home-field advantage in the entire system.[/quote]

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