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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG, just have your kid write the little essay, fill out the forms and move on with your life. Why so much guess work and handwringing about whether they will know if your kid was in a magnet or not. You can’t influence the process in any way except for the essay so why are you all wasting so much energy on these other questions?[/quote]

I disagree. The kids who are in magnet paced classes have a higher bar to achieve an A. It's just harder: the content and the pace. That is relevant in terms of the grade they earn, especially when compared to others who are taking classes that have the same name but are not actually the same class.

This can be true while it is also true that many of the kids taking non magnet Algebra or Geometry or Science or whatever could handle and deserve to be in the magnet. But not everyone ends up taking magnet classes in the end. [/quote]

My kid is in the magnet and the classes have not been particularly rigorous. At no point has he been particularly challenged, he breezes though it so just as in the past and I get the impression none of the kids struggle. I really haven’t seen them go as far “in depth” as we were told they would. In all, it’s really not that special. The one exception is that they get to take computer science which has been great. I really question that his As in those subjects should really be worth more than an A in the non magnet version of the courses. Algebra is algebra, for example.[/quote]

My older DC did not go to TPMS. They said my younger one at TPMS covered topics in Algebra 1 that weren’t covered in the regular MCPS curriculum until Algebra 2. [/quote]

That isn't really in depth, that's accelerating but sound silly to do that when they will take Algebra 2.  [/quote]

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