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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]op, you've been given some good advice here about how the system works in MCPS. I have one child in private and one in MCPS. If you were set on a private, I worry that you would not be happy with MCPS -- and their are no guarantees anyway. I'd probably opt for [b]Blair/Eastern [/b]or Poolesville -- two radically different areas but with great magnet programs that you are more likely to get in if you live close by. But in the meantime, your youngest would be bored for years as the HGCs don't start till 4th grade. I'd suggest you either suck it up for a year with public for your youngest child & then reapply, OR apply them both to K-8 schools, which seem to have more openings. [/quote]

There is zero advantage to living in the Blair cluster for purposes of getting into magnets at Blair and Eastern.  Zero.

There is some advantage to living in the TPMS cluster for purposes of getting into the TPMS magnet.[/quote]

pp here -[b] I know DC at Blair taking magnet classes without being formally in the magnet. Plus there are robotics clubs and others favored by the magnet kids which are open to all students.[/b] So yes, I consider that an advantage.[/quote]

Blair magnet classes have been watered down to barely the level of subject matter at 'W' schools.  I know a DC who left the Blair magnet because of the lousy offerings and returned to 'W' school. If you really want your children to be challenged look for the 'W' schools.[/quote]

You are hilarious![/quote]

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