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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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Wondering why you think a. Student is less likely to be supported in a magnet program?[/quote]

My son, and he isn't alone in this, gets a lot of individualized attention. Teachers bring books just for him, send him links to articles, provide specialized assignments, etc.  With the great number of classes he has been able to take high level stem and humanities courses from his freshman year.
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