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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"It is super important that we restrict the best opportunities for high quality intensive math and science education to a tiny fraction of the hundreds, if not thousands, of smart and motivated high school students in the region that could handle the work. Why would we want more kids to have a strong grounding in these areas, it's not like these are foundational skills that make a huge difference in our fastest growing industries...oh, wait.

And we wonder why the U.S. ranks so poorly on math and science performance compared with other nations... "

We have sent one DC through the SMAC and one through our home school AP track.

Our AP student was smart and motivated and is now has a 3.3 GPA in MechE at a top 60 engineering school.

Our SMAC child was two years behind and tutored our AP student often.

At the SMAC our DC was average and they spent their freshman year learning how to get As in hard classes and sleeping about 5 hours a night.

If our AP DC had tried the SMAC classes, it would have been a disaster. [/quote]

My kids were quite similar. Both bright capable kids doing fine in college.  Only one belonged in a magnet.  The other got all he needed at our local school taking AP s..  he did not apply to the magnets and I don't wish they had more spots for him.[/quote]

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