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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish. [/quote]

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected.  And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.  [/quote]

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more.  80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.[/quote]

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys).  Definitely not great for those kids.  [/quote]

I really don't see why that's a bad thing.  For either the boys or the girls. I have boy that's applying to EMS and he's just excited about the program - he could care less about whether other boys are in it or not.[/quote]

You don't think it's bad to primarily have perspectives of only one gender during class discussion?  Also, most Eastern kids don't know many other kids going in and most are only friends with kids of their own gender.  This makes it much harder to find friends.  [/quote]

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