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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would imagine the in person demand is part of getting people to grapple with the time and distance. If you can’t show up for a single info session, is this Bery demanding commute going to be something you can manage for your family every weekday?[/quote]

The "bery" demanding commute isn't as much of an issue since Blair SMCS offers bus service to kids every day.  But if you think that part of MCPS admissions to a magnet should be the ability to drive 40 minutes each way for a single hour on a single school night, well, that's your vision of what equity and merit looks like.[/quote]

+1  They have so many calls that are streamed out--why couldn't they do that for the RMIB and Blair SMCS ones unless they were trying to make it harder for people to get the information?   It was particularly striking because they offered the Poolesville info session via email with a virtual link in the same email where they said the Blair session was only in person at Blair.[/quote]

I don't get why people only seem to be whining about Blair SMCS not having a virtual option.  Other than Poolesville, none of the other schools did to my knowledge.  We live in East County and my kid is interested in the Whitman program - and the open house would have been a hike for us - but I'm not complaining.  We did attend the Blair SMCS OH and honestly most of the time was spent going through those Q&As.  If you didn't attend, I don't think you missed much in terms of information for parents.  [b]The kids were split into 3 groups and left to have mini-sessions with Blair students where they talked about electives, after-school activities, and stuff 8th graders would be interested in.[/b]  So, if you didn't go in person, your kid missed that, but in terms of the Q&As there wasn't much substance outside of the slides (he did go into more depth, but again, nothing significant that I can recall).   [/quote]

What is this, demonstrated interest? What if student and/or family sick evening of this gathering?

This was like a kindergarten orientation where prospective students and parents in different rooms[/quote]

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