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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern has less kids apply, it's easier to get into and it's mostly girls. (If you have a boy, I've never heard of one getting rejected by eastern). Bus stop for my kids a mix- but yes- a lot of Asians. We are neither Asian nor Jewish. [/quote]

There are fewer kids who apply to Eastern than Takoma but I know many boys from my child's HGC who were rejected.  And the 6th grade class is only about 20% boys. They did not balance gender in admissions.  [/quote]

If MCPS selects based on income and geography, they really should consider balancing out the sex ratio a little more.  80 girls and 20 boys is not for the social aspects of middle school.[/quote]

My child has two 6th grade magnet classes at Eastern (out of the 4 magnet classes) that have only 2 boys each (the same two boys).  Definitely not great for those kids.  [/quote]

This doesn't even make sense.  I personally know of 8 boys who go to eastern ms  - I know there are more. [/quote]

Maybe you happen to know a large percentage of the boys in 6th grade.  This is true and if you look at the magnet directory you can see how few boys there are.  Not sure why those particular classes have only two boys.  Seems like poor planning. [/quote]

Our experience at EMS was that the administration was quite poor.  registration was often a mess with some
classes over-filled and others under and kids put in the wrong lunch.  Many of these situations could have been corrected even before class placement.  based on our experience, I'm quite sure that admin doesn't even think to address these kinds of issues.  Make some noise; complain outside the school to sipervisors.  Even with the overall gender imbalance, it is still usually possible to get 5+ boys in a class.  Even if boys were only 20% of the 100 students, distributed among 3-4 magnet classes that's 5-7 boys per class.[/quote]

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