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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here- I still don't really know what choices she meant. Is there any type of magnet or another out of bounds school that we could pick? We just left private, so for us and many others that is not an option. Moving, because of the large transaction fees, is not really an option, and we like where we live. 
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Richard Montgomery has an application-only IB program.  Some BCC kids applied there and chose to go, some chose not to.  A number of BCC kids choose (after application) to go to Takoma Park MS magnet and Eastern MS Magnet every year.   Having gone to a DCC middle school enables them to apply to any of the HS programs in the DCC area -- popular choices for BCC students have been Blair's "Communication Arts Program" (CAP) or Blair's Math/Science Magnet program.  I know students from the BCC area who have chosen these other magnets and some who have chosen BCC instead of these magnet programs.  The total number of BCC kids who have chosen another MCPS school is less than a dozen (out of an incoming freshman class of approx 450).  Other students choose to apply to local private schools or boarding schools.  Most of the time the final choice is based on highly individual student considerations rather than some strong antipathy for BCC; in other words, these choices are made in the context of knowing that BCC is a pretty strong public high school.

When the principal referred to "choice," at the parent meeting a few nights ago, she definitely also meant that BCC parents make a conscious choice to buy in the BCC neighborhood knowing that BCC is a strong high school, and that that "choice" doesn't come cheap.  I don't love this line of thought because it encourages a less welcoming attitude among small minority of BCC parents who believe that people who didn't pay up to live in BCC cluster don't belong there (see the threads on the potential MCPS change in rules which would take away the existing right of Rock Creek Forest Immersion kids from outside the BCC cluster to continue from Westland to BCC.)  [/quote]

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