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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] MoCo schools on the other hand don't have any kind of vetting, no test-in, and no comprehensives to advance.  [/quote]

Tell that to my DCPS 5th grader who recently took the test for the Silver Spring Eastern MS Humanities Magnet AND the Takoma Park MD MS Math/Science Magnet, each program admitting no more than 16% of applicants country-wide (we own in MoCo as well as DC).  He will be in a minority of applicants not coming out of one of the MoCo 4th-5th grade test-in HGCs (Centers for the Highly Gifted).  We're hoping that several summers at the Johns Hopkins CTY camps will stand him in good stead.  The MoCo MS magnets do kick out kids who can't cut it, replacing them with high-performing kids who didn't make the grade on the 5th grade test.

My wife and I passed on BASIS and Deal/Wilson, mainly out of concern that most of the middle-class families at both will indeed bail well before 12th.  For the sake of the value of our DC property, we pray that we're wrong.  Good luck to all of you at BASIS.

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