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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd make sure your kid is really interested and not just trying to make you happy. There are smart kids everywhere, all over mcps, and you will definitely find them at your home school too. Even more so now that it's lottery driven.

(I am an Eastern grad and disliked it - the program and the kids. It was a mistake - though it made me realize what I didn't like which is equally valuable. This was awhile ago, so maybe the cohort of kids are just nicer these days.) [/quote]
My kid went to Eastern and did not like the cohort of kids either.  She never found her people, although others say this (the cohort) made the program for them.  She just found them overly competitive and intense, and always looking out for themselves.[/quote]

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I have an older child who went to TPMS and a younger who went to Eastern. The classmates seem night and day different. The TPMS group was supportive and not really competitive. The Eastern experience was the opposite. I've noticed the personality differences with the parents too when we've seen them at meetings or open houses. It's not everyone but most of them seem unkind.[/quote]

I don't know how to explain it, but with our experience with Eastern (and this was before the lottery) there were just a lot of kids who were smart and *knew* they were very smart. The arrogance was palpable.  I observed some weird dynamics in group projects. That may be there in any magnet (TPMS, Clemente, MLK) but we only have experience with Eastern so I can't speak to that. [/quote]

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