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[quote=Anonymous][quote]1. the GTA got about 104 comments for the Super's forum. Some comments were multiple comments from the same person, some were from people who weren't in our system! Even if all those commenters were counted it is still barely the number of parents of an incoming magnet class. 
2. take out the comments that supported magnets and centers and you don't even have enough to claim anything. [/quote]

I actually read almost all of them.  I saw only one or two that were identical and they seemed to be right after each other, leading me to believe the person had hit enter twice or something similar.  Most were quite individual.  
Re: some "not even being in our system" - those seemed primarily to be people who had felt they were forced out of the system to homeschool or private school due to the inability/unwillingness of MCPS to meet their child's needs.  They seemed to be commenting to point out that they would have preferred to have stayed in the system but had not seen this as a tolerable choice for their child.
There were a few comments that focused solely on the magnets/centers, but most related to experiences in home schools.  Many seemed to be by parents who had some experience w/ the centers/magnets for an older child but are now facing difficulty because the child is no longer in the special program or because a younger sibling hasn't qualified (at least not yet).  So even those parents w/ some experience w/ the magnets/centers seemed to be expressing concerns about acceleration/grouping in the home schools.
My DC is not yet in K so my post on their letter was about the latter issues.  I think it was one of the only ones by someone whose kids are not yet in ES.  100+ isn't a ton and it would have been nice if they'd gotten more but I can tell you that I don't think these issues are ones only a few parents care about - at least on the eastern side.  In my neighborhood the concern about our middle class kids getting lost in the shuffle of a very high needs ES is the primary topic of conversation by me and my neighbors of other preschoolers.  The main debate is whether it's safe to stay put and to give it a shot vs. move out of this school zone entirely of me and my neighbors of other preschoolers.  
I can't imagine that having most of the remaining middle class families (who would actually have time/inclination to do PTA/volunteer activities) is in the best interest of the local ES.[/quote]

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