Montgomery Blair Magnet

2collegewego
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:31:49 +0000

Walker, this is a very big school system (over 100,000 students in all grades) and the regular schools in this school system would allow kids to be challenged-- with and without massive quantities of homework-- within their area high school. Kids from every regular high school in this school system go to the top universities every year. (In other words, the regular schools have 20-30 AP courses, multiple languages, science research opportunities, math through 2nd year college Calculus, and often IB programs.) These two small magnet programs are for families whose kids want the additional work. They don’t have to be there to get into a top school; they want to. I know a kid who dropped out of the program and went to a regular high school and still ended up at a top college.