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Yes we know... "cohort" is the other, which has nothing to do with academic metrics.[/quote]

Really? But I have often read on DCUM that cohort is very important academically - usually in discussion about application magnet programs or schools in Bethesda/Potomac/Chevy Chase.[/quote]

[b]Putting a bunch of kids together w/o a proper curriculum is as useful as a bunch of smart kids chewing bubble gum together.  Doesn't really achieve much.[/b]  I cannot comment much about the middle school program, but I can certainly make a comment about elementary school.  So they keep a bunch of smart kids back at the local school.  They spend too much time doing very little and not being properly challenged in class.  Unless the county plans a proper and challenging program for these kids with teachers who know how to implement the curriculum, cohorts mean very little.[/quote]

Well, tell that to the Whitman etc. parents. If cohort doesn't matter, why not live in the DCC?[/quote]

Bragging rights.

Which is why many care about the Magnet cachet rather than the enriched course anyway.[/quote]
Cohort is important. So is a challenging curriculum.  Why do people separate these two things?  Why can't a parent want both for their kids?  And no, the "enriched" classes at the home school is no where near the level of the magnet program.[/quote]

A parent can want both, but in a county with very few middle school magnet slots, a parent cannot feel entitled to one of those slots.  There are going to be more kids who could benefit from those slots than there are slots.  And the value that parents in wealthier schools place on peer cohort suggests that kids at a home school where they do not have a peer cohort challenging them are more in need of the magnet slots than those who do have a challenging peer cohort.  Because the home school is more likely to be directing instruction at a level appropriate to a cohort than at a level appropriate to 1 student.  [/quote]

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