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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Enjoy your sour grapes because your above-average learner didn't get into a special program. If your child is so damn brilliant then it shouldn't matter if they got into the program. [/quote]

Not the PP. I have a child at Eastern, so I have no sour grapes here. I think it's a travesty that the choices for a literature/humanities focused kid are either: 1) Win the lottery; or 2) Get zero enrichment at your home school.

For math-focused kid, at least there is the potential for AIM or Algebra I in 6th, but if you have a child who is ready to engage in higher-level literary analysis and writing, you are out of luck.

If MCPS would just agree to differentiate at the MS level, I think the whole magnet question becomes almost moot. Leave the magnets for kids with no home school cohort, and provide differentiated instruction to kids with cohorts. Done and done. [/quote]

+1000

I was so sad my book-loving DD didn't "win the lottery" for EMS. [/quote]

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