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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who was most motivated to apply to the magnet program - DC or parents? If parents, let DC go back to home school. They don't have the internal motivation to stick it out and figure out how to make it work. If they stay, they'll be miserable trying to satisfy parent wishes. If DC was the one who really wanted to apply, then have them stay at least through the semester, preferably until the end of the year. A lot of the challenge is simply middle school transition. But if they are highly motivated by the coursework and peers, they will figure out how to fit in and make friends.

-middle school magnet teacher (who has seen both types of kids)[/quote]

It’s all parent led?  The introverts will be introverts anywhere so they don’t care. It is the kids with friends and social systems that have the toughest time. Even harder if they go back to home high school.  [/quote]

I agree.  Magnet middle schools are all pushed by parents. It's pretty sad they are willing to bus them across the county and be miserable, so they can brag and hope it gets them in a magnet high school
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Have you attended a middle school magnet in MCPS? Have any of your children? Your post reeks of sour grapes. I hated school and would have gladly skipped any project that was optional, but my dc is that kid who gets excited about about being assigned a project. She actually wants to be challenged. She wants to acquire new skills. She wishes assignments were harder. She asks me to create assignments at home for her. She felt there should have been more homework in 5th grade. She resents the slow pace of the curriculum. She wants to have similar classmates so the pace doesn’t have to be slowed for any of them. There’s no longer an application process, but dd made it very clear that she wanted to attend a humanities magnet. I’m thrilled when either of my kids don’t have homework and I get grumpier and grumpier about homework and projects in the final weeks of the school year. I’m a little disappointed that I have to drive dd to her magnet bus stop early in the morning, after years of anticipating her walking with friends to our neighborhood middle school. DD is only in 6th grade and I’ve already casually mentioned that it would be great for her to attend our home high school, where AP classes can challenge her. DD has never had a tutor or taken a prep class. She’s not in the magnet because that’s what her parents chose.[/quote]

This is pretty much our family too.  Although we are fortunate to have a short commute.[/quote]

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