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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Majority of magnet MS students stay in the program.  Not only survive but thrive because they have supportive parents.  No tigers can force them wake up early morning to take long bus ride to the school, no helicopters can transport them to varies after school activities such as competitive swimming, tennis and other sports.

These are committed and disciplined kids.

A typical TPMS parent  [/quote]

I have seen Tigers and Helicopters force kids in [b]every high school, magnets or not. Private or public[/b].

A typical teacher  [/quote]

Dear woman who responded to this by calling the teacher a troll,

You are, again, a typical tpms parent. Now telling a teacher they know nothing. Wait for it! In another second you will explain that you, not the teacher, really knows the magnet children and the teacher has obviously never worked with the gifted children who have extremely special special needs.

Look, I get it. I went to a magnet school in another state that winnowed us down to 30 for grades 10-12. Out of the thirty, ten of us went to the ivy league. Another ten to schools the hyper tpms parent who's putting down teachers couldn't get into--Smith, Duke, Haverford, Stanford, Williams, etc. The last ten... Honors programs at state schools and Hbc's. I'm not saying this to brag--truthfully, having lived through it, our experience was hothoused and overrated--but if I don't use that kind of language with you people, you don't listen. I was hanging out with my friend who went to Bronx Science the other day, (another school most of you wouldn't get into), and we laughed about the absurdity of it all. It's a race to what?

There are very bright children in the magnets. There are very bright children out of the magnets. Some of us just want our kids to be happy and to love learning and not be subjected to the kind of joyless bullying that so many of you do to other patents--and your own offspring.

The most successful kids from my high school hothouse were actually the ones who went to state schools and HBC's. The most successful people I know didn't go to hothoused high schools at all. I get it, again, your children are different! And now you'll work in how 279 isn't great and 300 plus is the goal. (Pretty sure the test doesn't go above 300, but what do I know? And do I care? No.)

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