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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Generally, I really wouldn't worry about the other kids at Eastern.  Not enough of a thing to sway your choice about going to the school.  You can always go back to the home school if it isn't working out.  IMO as a current parent the only reason that I wouldn't have elected to send my kid there is if we lived in northern MOCO, as the bus rides are long.[/quote]

Completely disagree. We know multiple kids who left because they didn't like it socially.[/quote]

I teach in the program. Foremost, not many students leave. Beyond that, in the past three years, I can think of a single student who left for social reasons rather than extracurricular, health, or family issues. If students are leaving for social reasons, they’re telling us something very different. [/quote]

I think you're not as in tune with the students as you think you are.[/quote]

And are you more in tune with the students?

This is only one family's experience but my kid is a 6th grader in the program and has reported a couple (~2) new kids in their classes since the beginning of the year.  Presuming this was because others dropped out, this doesn't seem like a huge number and could also be explained by other factors (e.g., not wanting long bus rides or not managing the academic challenge).

Again, only one family's experience, but we have not heard anything about weird social dynamics within the magnet program.  Only a handful of issues involving non-magnet kids teasing or bullying magnet kids (but nothing extreme or out of the ordinary for middle school kids; let's face it, a lot of them are jerks at this age).  [/quote]

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