Anonymous wrote:The program has changed since 2019. Students are no longer required to write a full research paper in seventh grade. Instead they do the various stages of research and are allowed to stop at an outline.

Interesting. That’s not what I’ve heard from current 9th graders. They say they wrote 15 page research papers in 7th grade. Even so, it’s better than the MSMC.

The program has changed since 2019. Students are no longer required to write a full research paper in seventh grade. Instead they do the various stages of research and are allowed to stop at an outline.

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Anonymous wrote:Good Lord! Who digs up a year and a half old question? Yikes!

A magnet kid did because that’s one of the differences between a gifted kid and your kid. A gifted kid is passionate and wants to hone everyone’s understanding with the most up to date info. Your kid can’t recall what they posted on Instagram yesterday.

Nice try. A parent bumped this thread.

Tell me about the 8th grade trip to NY. Sounds like a great capstone project. Do families pay for this?

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Anonymous wrote:It's a great program in a not-so-great school, and it feels divided, like two schools in one building. My kid learned how to write/read/research - skills that are invaluable. And she had fun in all those cool classes. Gym and Art and math/science were not so great. So it's a trade-off. One we'd do again - the enriched instruction is really amazing - but know what you're getting.

My child is in 6th grade. I agree with this. It’s an oddly divided experience IMO. Science especially is not great.
It has been a good experience, but not amazing. Certainly not worth all the stress parents whose child was rejected are making it be.

It would help every middle schooler if the school district utilized externally developed and evaluated science curriculum. That would raise the bar.

Anonymous wrote:Going through this now… any updated thoughts on the school?

Most of this is still pretty accurate. Don't put too much stock in the comments about math and science since those will be the same across MCPS outside of the math/science magnet middle schools. It's totally teacher dependent. Our Eastern kid had some good math and science teachers and some not-so-great ones. But the humanities teachers are by and large fantastic. They also really seem to love their jobs! Not an insignificant thing.

Going through this now… any updated thoughts on the school?

Actually it is not an irrelevant thread - being only about 18 months old. It will answer a lot of questions for parents going through this now. It's not like a 7 year old thread asking for specific advice in a situation.

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Anonymous wrote:Good Lord! Who digs up a year and a half old question? Yikes!

A magnet kid did because that’s one of the differences between a gifted kid and your kid. A gifted kid is passionate and wants to hone everyone’s understanding with the most up to date info. Your kid can’t recall what they posted on Instagram yesterday.

Says DCUM who rags on the non-magnet kid tweeting BoE meetings...

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Anonymous wrote:Good Lord! Who digs up a year and a half old question? Yikes!

A magnet kid did because that’s one of the differences between a gifted kid and your kid. A gifted kid is passionate and wants to hone everyone’s understanding with the most up to date info. Your kid can’t recall what they posted on Instagram yesterday.

Yikes. While I think PP could have phrased their question better considering that a kid wrote the most recent post, your comment is substantially worse.

/parent of a "gifted" Eastern magnet kid who is currently in the basement watching a show for elementary schoolers with her brother

Anonymous wrote:Good Lord! Who digs up a year and a half old question? Yikes!

A magnet kid did because that’s one of the differences between a gifted kid and your kid. A gifted kid is passionate and wants to hone everyone’s understanding with the most up to date info. Your kid can’t recall what they posted on Instagram yesterday.