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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This is anecdotal but just to give you an examples so you understand how people feel about these changes. I recently met a group of mothers with kids in a high school Magnet. Four of them also had kids in elementary school and only one was planning to let their kid apply to the magnet middle school. Two were pulling their kids out of MCPS and one was going to keep their kid in their home middle school. The reason given was the new selection criteria and their concern about the quality of the program. They were all zoned for middle schools that have experienced discrimination in the last selection process. 
All of us agreed that the Magnet programs have been wonderful for our children. The three who are leaving mcps were willing to send their kids to the high school magnets if the selection process etc stays the same.[/quote]

Folks must have money to burn if they are willing to pull their kids out of public school based on nothing but rumors. We are three months into the very first cohort selected under the new admissions criteria. Let's not declare the whole thing a failure quite yet, and let's not assume the "quality of the program" will go down because the system is testing more kids and prioritizing kids who otherwise would not have a peer group. [/quote]
These are parents who know first hand how important it is to have a class full of the very best students. It is the peer group that allows teachers to simultaneously go fast and deep and still make it fun [/quote]

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