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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know it is unpopular to say so, but there are lots of families that decide with their children not to send their high achieving children to the magnets.  We are one.  The benefit of keeping a child at a home school (in our case B-CC) is that you can create an individualized program and receive the support that you might not at a magnet.   We have a child that is equally (exceptionally) strong in sciences and humanities, so for him it has made more sense to stay at a home school where he could be pushed in all areas.

For our son (after lots of input)  we realized that getting our child "ready" for college wasn't really an issue.   That there is little chance of him struggling academically even in the most rigorous programs, so if his preference was a school that he can walk to and participate in a variety of clubs and a sport, there wasn't a significant benefit to putting him on a bus for hours and limiting out of school opportunities.

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Yes, but....did your child take and pass the entrance exam?  I'm not knocking your decision to stay at B-CC, which is a lovely school, but there are a lot of folks on this thread who seem pretty darn sure their child would have passed the test if they had only taken it, and it's unlikely that all of them are correct. [/quote]

It is easy to reject a program you haven't been invited to.  LOL[/quote]

Yes, he did. This is exactly what I meant when I said that it is [b]unpopular to say that magnets aren't the best choice for all students.[/b]  You get attacked because people can't imagine a choice that they didn't make could possibly be the right one.[/quote]

I am not sure about the "unpopular" part but I agree the magnets aren't the best choice for all students. That's kind of obvious thing to say thou. [/quote]

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