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Okay, so I think you are conflating a few issues here and making some unfounded assumptions.

First of all, MCPS *formerly* had a system that to some degree prioritized the magnets for kids with no home school cohort. That's no longer true. Now they have a lottery. So you are right that some kids are going to have more of a peer group, and others won't.

However, you are wrong to assume that a child attending a high-FARMS school will have zero academic peers. Actual test scores released by MCPS at one point showed that pretty much every school could scrape together a cohort if they tried hard enough. The point is that they need to try hard enough. There are bright kids in every school, so now your job is to stop complaining about how unfair the lottery is and start talking to the MS administration about how they are going to put the "highly able" kids together. [/quote]

+1. I'm pretty sure both Takoma and Eastern have local cohorts so I'm not sure why PP is assuming they don't. In a few individual elementary schools, cohorting might be an issue (emphasis on "might"), but by middle school, enough students are gathered together that your child will find a group of peers.

PP, use your energy to advocate for your local MS to put the lottery-qualifying (i.e., highly-abled) kids together in advanced classes in MS. The mix-ability classes currently used in MS are not helpful. This is the best use of your energy unless you plan to transfer to private.[/quote]

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