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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bigger problem, IMO, is that MoCo doesn't provide enough spaces in programs like CAP and RMIB to challenge all the qualified kids. MoCo dangles a lure that your kid might get into one of these programs. As a result, people stay in downcounty MoCo until it's too late to move to a W school or go private.

Maybe we can all agree on the need for more of these programs. From what I understand, they really aren't that more expensive than providing regular instruction to the same kids who they have to teach anyway.

(And for the record, my kid is in one of these programs now, so I'm not writing out of sour grapes. I do know plenty of well-qualified kids who were turned away.)[/quote]

I think that's a fair statement. But just for the sake of argument, isn't it possible that those programs already do exist, that there are teachers and courses able to provide similar rigor at Wheaton's engineering magnet and Kennedy's LTI, but that too many status-focused families avoid them?

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Is entrance to the Wheaton and Kennedy programs by application and testing? If not, that could explain some of the difference in perceptions.[/quote]

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