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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The takoma park in boundary area includes a lot of high poverty areas esp around langleynpark and the area that was co opted from pg a few years ago. Also a lot of apaprtment buildings in DTSS now feed in there. So while they get a leg up with tpms,[b] the school has lots of other issues to contend with vis a vis the non magnet[/b][/quote]

Utterly 100% false. I don't know where you get your information, but it's obvious you don't have first-hand experience with TPMS. I do. I have one grad and another there now, both in the regular program. I don't know of any issues. It's a great, dynamic, well-integrated community, full of bright, talented kids--both in the magnet and out. [/quote]

Not entirely false, although somewhat false. First, most of Langley Park is still PG. The area that was coopted into TP a few years ago, basically lying between Carroll and New Hampshire, is pretty solidly middle class by any standard other than the DCUM standard where middle class=$250k/year. Maple Avenue is mixed but it's not a huge area anyway.

There were bad relations between the magnet and non-magnet parts of the school maybe 10 years ago. In one incident, non-magnet kids held a demonstration, complete with posters, to protest the fact that magnet 8th graders got a trip to Disney World, or some such place, every year, but non-magnet kids didn't get such trips. The trip for 8th graders was eliminated before my kid got to the magnet.

I agree that magnet/non-magnet relations are fine now. [/quote]

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