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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]" OP - I know you are not going to believe this but magnets are HARD to get in. No more, no less. "

This is NOT the complete story.  There are two groups of kids that get into the magnets.  One group is just so far out on the bell curve that getting into a magnet is simply a matter of not being a discipline problem in MS.  The other group is picked from a much larger group of smart but not exceptional students.  This picking is VERY competitive.  Given the level of MCPS MS classes, the difference between the two groups is almost impossible to observe from grades but their middle school teachers KNOW.  This is why the one MS teacher who posted on this thread would smile to themselves when the parents of a smart but not exceptional student would claim their DC was going to Blair.[/quote]

This is your fiction.  First I don't believe there is an exceptional group set off from the pack, that's contrary to the concept of a curve.  Second even if there were, in addition to including math geniuses it would scoop up a fair number of the future math cranks of the world, people who for whatever reason obsess on math but arrest in their own thoughts.  There'd be no way for the teacher or the test to distinguish between raw talent and such a person and there's no need to because kids deserve the benefit of the doubt.  Regardless, what probably is obvious to the teacher is parents who have a deeper interest in the magnet than that of their kid's, and no doubt such parents are over represented in the group mentioned.  I mean really, last year of middle school and they don't realize back to school night isn't for individual discussions?!? Glad the teacher has a sense of humor about it, as surely this is just the first of many such interactions before the end of eighth grade.[/quote]

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