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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't they just change the standards for the HGC's this year?  How would that affect Blair?[/quote]
I think it could affect Blair in a couple of ways.
The first is that the same pressures that are causing a change to admission criteria/standards for the HGCs will over time impact the middle school and high school magnets.  The HGCs and Middle school magnets are feeders for Blair SMAC.  Most kids have attended at least one of the gifted programs before arriving at Blair.  Many attended Takoma MS of course but there are also lots of kids who went to their home middle school or Eastern magnet but previously attended a HGC.  If the HGCs and middle school magnets change their standards and (then inevitably) their curriculum they will be less reliable feeders.
The second is that if the admissions standards in HGCs and middle school magnets change in a big way, this will affect the rigor and curriculum of the programs.  If this happens, kids will be entering Blair without adequate prep in math etc.  Right now, most kids are in an accelerated PreCalc course in 9th grade and they have maybe 15-20 kids taking a more advanced "Functions" class and another 15 taking a lower level Math class (Magnet Geometry with Trig).  I imagine over time there would be more kids in Magnet Geometry and fewer kids in Magnet PreCalc and Functions.  This will impact the number of kids who can take the more advanced Math and Physics electives in 11th and 12th grade and over time there might be fewer of these offered.

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