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Obviously the 4 could if they don't go to magnet but isn't it is a lot nicer going into a middle school with friends?  The HGC kids are already ostrasized when they move to another school.  New commute, new principal, new classmates, completely different kids outside of HGC classroom.  So you are only with that one group and you get close.  Add the fact that those kids you grow close with all leave for another middle school than you just sucks.   MCPS has implemented such a poor way of teaching gifted kids and parents don't care.  They will force their kid in a different class, cluster, 2hrs more a day of commute, switch friends yearly, etc.. just to say their child is in HGC.  [/quote]

Of course it's nicer going into a middle school with friends, but it's not exactly the end of the world (for a typical kid) if you don't. And no, the HGC kids aren't ostracized, at least not in the experience of my HGC kid who is at her home middle school. The great majority of sixth-graders don't even know that she was at the HGC, and they wouldn't care if they did -- why would they, when there are lots of kids from lots of different schools, new kids, kids moving away... ? Maybe if the middle school had 100 students per grade, but there's not a middle school in the county that small. Even John Poole MS has (slightly) over that.[/quote]

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