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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wonder what is the motivation of posters bashing up magnet programs on this board? Are they from central office? Or just people with hidden agenda?

Yes, magnet programs are being diluted, degraded and dismantled around the country. MCPS is no different.  Parents just need to find alternate solutions. [/quote]

Maybe CO or people with an agenda.

I have a kid at Blair SMCS now and one who graduated a few years ago and it seems stronger than ever now so have to disagree about dilution. I think that's just a story bitter parents like to tell themselves since it's harder to game admissions now.[/quote]

Magnet Admission at Blair is already gamed.

Another poster said there were 400 in the Blair magnet?  The letter MCPS sent to all the colleges says the Magnet program consists of only 100 students.

"Each year after careful screening of over 750 applicants from sixteen of the twenty-five high schools in Montgomery County, about 100 students are accepted for admission into the ninth grade."
https://mbhs.edu/departments/magnet/ParentResources/MagnetProfile.pdf

That means that the other 300 are local admits just riding the coattails of the 100 real Magnet students.[/quote]

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