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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, there’s a whole thread right now worrying that the regional magnets will be watered down because they will allegedly admit students by a lottery of only moderately qualified applicants: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/105/1317129.page

And yet this thread claims there will be a major brain drain from the other schools.

So both of these worries can’t be true.[/quote]

No, they actually go hand in hand.  If the regional programs were only enrolling the top 2-3% of kids, there would still be plenty of kids at home schools who are interested in and can succeed in advanced classes.  But since they're set to instead enroll the top 10-15% of kids, that simultaneously leads both to a less rigorous experience in the magnet programs than there currently is, and a less rigorous experience at the home schools who have lost the top 10-15% of their students.  [/quote]

This.   MCPS has managed to screw everyone who doesn’t live in Potomac on this one. It’s actually fairly impressive.   [/quote]

No, they would screw up Potomac area as well. Churchill currently has enough local students to keep those high-level AP courses. Some of these students got offer from RMIB/Blair SMCS but chose to stay due to various reasons, but now they may want to escape because Churchill is hosting only the humanity magnet in the future in addition to some crappy interest-based program. Churchill has a strong drama club. Now the performing art magnet is assigned to RM (because CO believes RM is under capacity, haha, what a joke).  [/quote]
I highly doubt kids will be leaving Churchill.   [/quote]

Currently Churchill kids are the 2nd (or 3rd?) largest population in Blair SMCS and RMIB. It's just gonna be worse in the future as STEM magnet and IB would be in Wootton and RM in Region 4. It's close enough logistically and both Wootton and RM are good schools. [/quote]

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