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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In my child's school, they discouraged kids from applying to MS magnet programs if not in compacted.  Funny because one magnet is Eastern which is about humanities, so math scores shouldn't matter.[/quote]

Weird. My child goes to an HGC and they mentioned at the parent open house that they had students who weren't in compacted math who got into the TPMS magnet.

In my experience, [b]the non magnet schools know little about the magnets.[/b] For example, a third grade teacher told all of the third grade parents at Back to School night that the HGC curriculum was the same as the home school.   [/quote]

This has been my experience also, and it would make sense since none of the regular teachers are informed of anything beyond their job (and sometimes not even then! They are rarely informed of their students' IEPs and need for accommodations, which was a shock to me). It's only if they've had a child/relative in magnets or evinced an interest themselves that they can inform you.

Parents fall into the trap of listening to what the regular teachers say about magnets, but they need to enquire delicately where the teachers are getting their information from, and take it with a grain of salt.In our case, DS's regular teacher was honest with us - said she didn't know the first thing about middle school magnets! The best way of getting information is by calling the magnet or HGC coordinators - they're always eager to help - and by asking other parents whose kids go there.

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