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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

[b]You don't think it's bad to primarily have perspectives of only one gender during class discussion?  [/b]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]

Single-Sex schools have discussions with more than one perspective all the time.  Plus one child can give perspective, and media/books/teacher/ can give perspective.  I'm not saying that balance isn't a good thing, just not that its the be-all - I'd rather have kids in the class that want to be there and can do the work - regardless of gender.  For my child, who is friends with both boys and girls - I don't think it matters. [/quote]

One child can give the perspective or the kids can read about boys in books?
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