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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm fine with universal screening, but using the cohort criteria really does exclude the brighter kids. [/quote]

But don’t they get the advanced classes at their home school? I thought they send the kids who are advanced but there’s not enough (20?) other advanced kids at their school, and where there are enough kids to form a class they keep them at their home school? I’d prefer my kid be at the home school, unless the magnet is close. [/quote]
No. If it was the exact same curriculum, then yes, but it's not the same curriculum, so no.. those one or two classes does not make a magnet program.[/quote]

It does give them a peer group.  [/quote]

Yes, it is only part of the curriculum. My child's teachers did note that the magnet classes are the exact same math and social studies classes at the magnets.[/quote]

I hope it's not lost on readers that these parents who go on about how great their schools are because of the peer group are the same that cry to high heaven when their precious didn't make it into the magnet and they're stuck with their local school's peer group. :)[/quote]

And some of us have kids who turned down MS magnet offer(s).  So the peer group classes look like a nice addition.[/quote]

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