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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"I guess you could try moving to a cohort-less ES,...."

This will be the only winning strategy.  A 99% kid in the W cluster will not get in. A 99% or even just 97% kid in the Rockville HS cluster ES would definitely get in CES.[/quote]

This is not the winning strategy.  My 99% kid didn’t get in and we’re not in a W cluster.[/quote]

But do you live in Rockville?[/quote]
DP. We do; however, my 99% kid who didn't get in is in a  W cluster.. My bad, should have moved to Twinbrook ES catchment area..

But, jokes apart, you can't be serious! Who on Earth is buying and selling - and moving into rentals - just to get into MoCo's "enriched" programs? If you have the money to pull all that s--t off, just send your child to private and save yourself the grief.
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I know people who are purposely renting in a district with a local CES.[/quote]

CES only really matters if your child needs to opt out of their local environment because of low peers. It is an opt out for too many poor kids, it isn’t some automatic transformative life altering experience.  If your kids already has lots of 1% around them who cares.[/quote]

Nonsense! There's 1% and the 0.1%.[/quote]

Our DC is at a regional CES, coming from what we consider to be an excellent ES.  It's a more rigorous, challenging curriculum, although there isn't necessarily more homework (actually, there's not a lot of homework at all).  From our perspective, it's a better program for our DC, but it's still a bunch of 10 year olds who can have varying attention spans, behavioral issues, fixation on Fortnite (boys, at least), etc.  For anyone who thinks it is a bunch of young Einsteins running around, it isn't.  (Yes, I'm sure some of these kids are the 0.1%, but that's not even a significant minority.)  We consider our DC fortunate to be there, but I think too many parents here fixate on the CES program.  Great if you DC is selected, but, really (and especially for all theses W cluster parents), the ES' in this area are really good, too.[/quote]

It is nice to see a non-crazy person posting. Most CES or magnet kids are just normal middle class kids with potential. It isn’t some pocket of kids picked by the gov to be the future of the party. I went to the Blair magnet in the early 90s and bought into how “smart” we were. The I went to a state school for college and stayed in the honors dorm. The concentration of talent there was 10x greater than the magnet program. I wasn’t even close to being special there but had strong work habits at that point. Which is the main point, these programs aren’t for geniuses necessarily, more for bright kids who have the support at home to grow into great students. There are lots of ways get to that point that don’t involve the school systems rebalancing programs.

Save for a small handful of kids, the average magnet class’s kids are no different than any driven high SES classroom at any school. How many of the classrooms filled with those types of kids is what defines a school which is why people get so excited about the subject. [/quote]

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