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Let’s get real. [b]The kids were [i]never[/i] all at the same level.[/b] There was always a variation in skills, interests, background knowledge, and work ethic. The difference I see now is that we get some parents who are less educated themselves so they can’t help at home, less equipped financially to assist with extra materials, less aware of the intense commitment the entire family is making, and less confident in asking teachers to explain a concept differently or reconsider a grade. Under the old system, a family might send three kids through magnet although only the first one was truly gifted and others average because they learned from experience how to make it work. Or they had lots of advice from friends and neighbors with kids who went to magnet. Now there are more kids who are truly trailblazers.

I’ve taught mixed ability general ed. This year’s classes were nothing like that. When MCPS starts admitting to MS magnet fifteen year olds or students reading on a pre-primer level, I’ll be the loudest one protesting.

Signed,
A middle school magnet teacher[/quote]

That was my impression as a parent with kids in the magnet programs, too.

Also, as a parent with kids in the magnet program, my opinion is that [b]participation in the magnet program should not require an intense commitment by the entire family.[/b] [/quote]

Whether you like it or not, it does. Sending kids to magnet is a family commitment. We are perfectly okay with that. [/quote]

Not in my family.  My oldest requires less commitment than most parents give their kids in local schools (pick ups and drop offs notwithstanding).  Perhaps if my youngest had been pushed and prepped and made to go to magnet it would have required that kind of commitment, but that's because he's not an appropriate kid for that program.  He's perfectly happy being a straight-A student with all his various interests and activities in his local MS.[/quote]

Pick-ups and drop-offs are part of the family commitment, if you live somewhere where your child can't get themselves to and from the central bus stop.[/quote]

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