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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PG poster here again.  Roosevelt is a magnet school that has won some awards over the years.  It is very difficult to get into, because it receives a lot of applicants as the best high school PG County has to offer.  Serious problem with crime in the area--primarily robberies, auto thefts and burglaries.[/quote]

I get the big picture.  I think I'm on the right track for looking at private schools. I just don't feel like dealing with that kind of drama at all.  Now here is a new topic for the board.  I was studying the GP admissions web site and it says that an applicant needs a recommendation from somewhere other than a teacher ie. an outside source.  My question point blank is like? [/quote]

maybe a coach, pastor, outside music teacher?[/quote]
Are you really serious?  A coach,pastor or music teacher will do? Not a senator or congressman.?  We are talking about GP.  On the other hand my pastor did go to all of the Ivies.  He might really have a name for himself.  You will see him in the news real soon.  He is protesting against same sex marriage.  He invited Steny Hoyer (congressman) to our church to talk about health care reform.  Hoyer said he knows pastor and his wife personally.  That's what he said.  My husband, son and I were in the Optometrist office in a mall last weekend when my son struck up a conversation with an absolute stranger.  It didn't bother me because he was within 10 feet of us.  Later that stranger called me outside of the store and said to me, "Your son is striking and I'd like to say that you are really doing a great job.  I know he is going many places.  I'd like to mentor him".  I said, well get in line because his dad is pretty busy helping him with Eagle scout activities".  He said, "What? that is great!".  He then said, "I work for the Obama administration, I've graduated from Harvard and Yale and I like to see other AA males do what I've done".  He said, "here is my card".  I said, "there is a school that he is interested in called GP and it needs a recommendation".  He said, "Oh yeah, they play against Landon, I'm mentoring a boy at Landon and that's how I know them".  He then said, "I am qualified to write the recommendation".  He insisted that he write it.  He suggested that he and my husband sit down with my son for a couple of dinner dates and we will take it from there.  I just need enough info about him to make it sound personal".  He sounds like someone we need to help my son get in but he is a total stranger.  We still have not contacted him.  He says he is a senior economic advisor at the WH.  I am still checking him out.  I am explaining all of this to say that "Is this a better recommendation?" I mean we talkin' GP here. [/quote]

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