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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a small high school elsewhere in MD. For my most advanced classes, I was usually in a mixed grade class with older kids in order to have enough kids to run the class. By the time that my best friend’s younger brother came along, they had given up trying to make it work and he was bussed to a larger high school nearby for GT level classes.

I was a three sport varsity athlete because we barely had enough kids to field varsity. We lost game after game. We did have fun though :)[/quote]
+1 it's the economies of scale, critical mass.  We moved out of a small school system because there were not enough opportunities for advanced students.  Some AP classes, and that was it.  MCPS, for all its issues, has several magnet programs, and IB/AP classes littered throughout the county.

A friend of mine lives in a tiny school district. Her DC in MS had to go to the nearby  HS with a few other kids to take Algebra. This is a wealthy-ish school district out west.  Similar for another person I know who came from a small town in CT. Those kids in ES had to walk to the nearby MS to take the advanced math class.    We have enough advanced kids in our MCPS school (not W cluster) to have two full advanced classes in MS.

There are pros/cons to each type of district. I like the bigger one that allows for the justification of advanced classes in the home school and gifted programs throughout the county.[/quote]

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