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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would any parent send their kids to a watered down “magnet”.  Won’t happen. Look at what they tried to do the IB programs at Watkins mill and Kennedy.  [/quote]

They'll go if the host school offers better opportunities than the home school and they can swing the commute.

We are zoned for Einstein. I have hope that Einstein will be a good place for my DC, especially since it will be a relatively smaller school. DC is pretty average academically and will probably be well served with standard MCPS courses available at every high school. But BCC and Blair definitely offer a wider variety of courses, and there are public buses to both of these schools with stops near our home. Whitman would probably be too difficult, nor is it the environment I'd want for DC especially away from all their friends.[/quote]

For kids who don't want STEM, Einstein is perfect.[/quote]

I really hate for this rumor to get traction. My Einstein grad is in college for engineering, his good friend who also graduated from Einstein is studying chemistry in college, and a third friend is majoring in physics at UMD. This is flat-out incorrect, apparently driven by that one poster who is annoyed that Einstein doesn’t offer multivariable calculus. [/quote]

Rumor?  There are two engineering classes right now, both taught during the same period/same teacher (who is a good teacher and tries hard but its an impossible task).  There are no AP science classes at Einstein right now.  Things have changed a lot since your kids went to school.  Don't tell us we are lying when we have kids at the school.  Is it possible they get in, of course.  Does it make it harder when you don't have the same rigor, absolutely?  [/quote]

I still have a child at the school. It is disingenuous to say they don’t have AP science classes, because it’s an IB school and they have IB science classes. And you don’t have to have engineering classes in high school in my opinion.[/quote]

The IB excuse is pretty simple to counter.  B-CC also is an IB school.  It also is not an IB magnet.  It has [i]scads[/i] of APs, including science APs, to go along with the [i]more rigorous[/i] IB offerings, not to mention a local-only engineering program with similar offerings to Wheaton's.  Those things are not available (no longer so, for those who remember better offerings years back) [i]right next door[/i] at Einstein.[/quote]

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