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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wootton,  Whitman, Walter Johnson, BCC.

Buy in these clusters.  You will be assured of good schools in these clusters.

Magnet and center programs are great, but there are no guarantees that your child will get in.  My kids have been in magnet programs throughout, but it is very competitive and difficult to get in.

I go through intense periods of stress, each time my kids apply for these magnets, because the alternatives (our assigned home schools)  are truly bottom of the heap!

- magnet parent

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Those are not necessarily the best schools in the county. They are the ones with the highest SES and most involved parents. The test scores those schools enjoy are not necessarily in direct corellation to the quality of the schools, but to its students and their families.  The students will succeed regardless of attending a W cluster school or not. I'm not saying that the teachers aren't good in those schools, but you won't automatically increase test scores of lower performing schools if you transferred all of the W school teachers to those schools. Those teachers would have a lot of trouble with the differentiation required in those schools. Teachers in lower performing schools are much more well versed in differentiating for the students way below grade level and way above grade level. [/quote]

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