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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]#1 downside is going to a super large school with a large low achieving cohort.  Sure the kids who get selected are high achieving but many of them are in shock to some of the types of kids and their attitudes that they have never had to deal with before. Even TP middle was better compared to the sheer quaintly of kids my daughter encountered who had noooo interest in academics and simply attend to socialize. Many of them resent better off magnet kids too. We sent our less focused, younger son to private as we heard BCC and (to a lesser degree) Westland aren't much better.     [/quote]

Completely disagree. My kid enjoyed the nonmagnet kids in other classes fir the most part. Of course,  there are always a few,  but that's the case anywhere. In fact, it was often a few magnet kids who were a pain in non mag classes. I really hate this attitude by some magnet parents that non mag kids are somehow "less than." Many kids have interest in academics and like to socialize. It's not an either/or. My kid met a lot of great non mag kids in her sport and in AP classes, and one of them just got accepted to an Ivy. [/quote]

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