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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No middle school in the DMV can compete with TPMS. This is the middle school that competes in High school Math competitions.[/quote]

Just because there are a handful of brilliant math students at TPMS doesn't mean that it is a great school overall for the average kid. That's the farce about magnet schools.[/quote]

Yeah, I think there are much better middle schools than TPMS for students who are *not* math geniuses. [b]Also found their Humanities to pretty "me[/b]h." TPMS has some very bright kids and some very privileged kids--not always the same subset [/quote]
Then explain to me why they always do great in humanities competitions?
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Same as with the kids excellent at math. The fact that there are a few kids who are very strong in a particular area does not mean that the school is good for the vast majority of kids. Citing the prevalence of awards at a particular school, especially a magnet school, is not persuasive. You should be look at the median or mean, not the high end.[/quote]
Again, it's a magnet school in STEM not in humanities. 
Even by GS standards, it's a good school for the majority of kids.
Don't talk about the school if you know nothing about it.
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[b]It is decent only because it sends the poorest Takoma kids to Eastern [/b]much like the west county kids that Takoma parents decry. Takoma middle is way more gerrymandered to pick up SFH than most of the W’s. At least with the W’s they aren’t really excluding local poor kids because there aren’t any. Takoma just ships them to eastern. Don’t worry all the poor kids meet up with the snow flakes at Blair [/quote]
That is not true. TP kids don't go to Eastern. Stop making stuff up.
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