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Reply to "Any feedback on Loiderman, Argyle or Parkland Magnet Programs?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are not real magnets. They are lotteries. MCPs is too cheap to staff interesting electives at every MA so they pick and choose what ends up in each of the DCC middle schools under the guise of a “magnet”. A true magnet would involve an application, and in the case of the performing arts, an audition.[/quote] A magnet is a school with offerings which attract students from outside its attendance area. [/quote] They are using it to entice students to go from other schools that are brighter and have higher test scores. It's not a magnet and just offering specialty classes. Past few years multiple students have gone back to their home schools from Loiederman. The arts program is meh.[/quote]
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