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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We received two emails directly to our email addresses (both parents), yesterday from Eastern and today from Takoma Park. Nothing has been posted anywhere in ParentVUE. We have until Monday to decide by filling out a google form.[/quote]

Wow, that’s pretty insane luck to win the lottery for both schools on a waitlist round which has presumably way fewer seats bouncing around. We were lottery losers but have a few friends who accepted spots last year. The vibe we’ve gotten is the math/sci/comp sci is great at TKPK but the other courses not so great, same spiel but the reverse for Eastern, and the kids we know all had rougher social starts to middle school than the kids who matriculated to home school middle schools. Lots of HW at Eastern. [/quote]

I have a kid at TPMS and do not agree with that assessment. The non magnet teachers are without exception excellent too.[/quote]

Same and we've been really impressed with the overall quality of the school as a whole. [/quote]

That’s great. It’s entirely possible the friends were trying to be humble/not brag to us since our child didn’t have luck with the lottery and theirs did. [/quote]

It's a great program if you happen to get in but you could easily supplement to achieve comparable math and CS. Comparable science is less available to my knowledge.[/quote][/quote]

The MCCPTA GEC FB group said that Takoma no longer offers a different science class. It is the same science class offered across MCPS, but it includes only kids in the magnet so probably is. a bit more rigorous. But it's no longer a separate curriculum. This is a real bummer for those of us with kids who really are into science.
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That’s not correct. They follow the same curriculum but they go into it in more depth and they cover it quicker, adding additional content too. You need to get that corrected and stop spreading misinformation. Reach out to the magnet coordinator to get confirmation that this is true, but it’s a math science and computer science magnet so OF COURSE the science is more advanced. The course has a different title too, it’s “magnet science” not science. The only thing I’m seats if that’s changed is that the forensics project in 7th grade is no longer part of the magnet curriculum.[/quote]

Really?  My 8th grader loved the Forensics unit and took the Forensics elective this year. Why did they remove Forensics rom the 7th grade curriculum?[/quote]

I don’t know but my 8th grader was told last year that it was the last year they would do it for 7th graders.[/quote]

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