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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Your Einstein grads had it different.  The school admin has progressively decimated advanced classwork in recent years.  I could be off by a year, but I think the first class for which there were no pre-IB courses are Seniors this year, no?  That's just one example.[/quote]

It's changed a lot in the past few years with reduced AP and advanced classes so if their child was a grad, that means they were under the former principal who has a very different point of view and made different decisions than the current one.[/quote]

Seems to an outside spectator that the biggest problem with Einstein is not loosing the prestigious VAC program, loosing access to Wheaton engineering program, or small population size, but rather a troublesome principal. [/quote]

I wouldn't say the principal is troublesome. He has his strengths and weaknesses, but the school doesn't care about the smarter kids nor some of the specialty programs they do offer. He'd also rather be liked than a strong leader standing up to the kids and setting limits, rules, etc.  He focuses on the middle and lower performing kids, which is fine, but then doesn't encourage smarter kids to attend promising their needs will be met when they aren't.

The arts are what draws students to the school, but the classes are also very limited due to staffing.

Einstein is overcrowded now.  It needs a reduction and get rid of the portables but the issue with that will be reduced classes with reduce staffing and what will be cut as the offerings are so limited now.

Its a good school, mostly great teachers and staff, and has lots of strenghts.[/quote]

I always hear people talk about the VAC at Einstein. Is the financial academy a draw? I know one student who's going there mainly for that program. 
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VAC is a very small program.  The academies are in name only.[/quote]

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