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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our son was accepted to both programs.  I'm somewhat intrigued by the Takoma Park program, while my DH is very strongly anti-magnet.  Our home MS is Pyle, which we liked for our older two, but that was many years ago.  The bus trip seems like it would be incredibly annoying.

Does anyone have any recent experience choosing Takoma Park over Pyle?  I'd love to hear your impressions if so.[/quote]

Why is your husband anti magnet? [/quote]

He graduated from Whitman in the late 80s, and thought that there was zero difference in ability and outcomes between the kids picked for the gifted/magnet programs and those who stayed at Pyle and Whitman.  He also thought that a lot of the magnet kids were annoying.  He thinks there is no reason for anyone who can send their kid to Whitman or one of the other wealthy MoCo schools to get any extra help given that between the high level of offerings at the home schools and mostly wealthy, committed parents, all these kids already have everything they need to do well in life.

I don't really disagree with him, and we didn't see too much of a difference between the magnet kids and the studious kids at Whitman when our much older kids went through HS.  But I've always felt guilty that we haven't done anything special to support our youngest, besides nagging him to read.  He's intensely curious about a lot of things, and loves science in particular.  I worry we should be giving him more opportunities or academic support, but neither of us is math or science oriented at all.  [/quote]

This is a funny post to me because I graduated from a W HS in the late 80s, and had no clue there were even any gifted/magnet programs.  Maybe because I wasn't going to qualify anyway...[/quote]

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