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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably because they don't want a situation where a host school has no kids in the actual program creating a "town vs. gown" type of situation where the host community resents the privileged selected few.  It makes sense to me.[/quote]

This only happens when the host school is behind in that certain subject. If host school is already those resourceful schools, this gives them a further inequitable share.

Let's think of it in a positive way: the set-aside also sets the upper limit for the host school to not let the program become their own local program. Does it make it sound better? [/quote]

No, because there was no commitment that host school students would not also be applicants for the seats that are not set aside.[/quote]
Remember that the magnet program we’re initially created as a way to shift student population around from over enrolled areas to under enrolled ones. When they create a magnet program (lottery or criteria based) they are determining a maximum number of seats for out of boundary students to attend the school. This affects the capacity of the school as a whole. For example, when RMIB was created it was intended to bring 100 students per cohort to the school. There are students already attending the school may be interested and qualified for the program. If they were considered as part of the 100, the school wouldn’t necessarily bring enough students to the school. So instead an ADDITIONAL 25 seats was added and reserved for in bounds students. These students don’t change the total number of students at the school. They do change the number of students in the program, which affects internal scheduling. The initial proportion seems to be set to end up with roughly 2, 3, or 4 sections of students in the program (60, 90, 120) and some guesstimate of the anticipated initial balance. (Which is why Global has one more section than SMCS and Humanities at Poolesville. It was a high demand local program first.)

The home school applicants and out of area applicants are considered as two separate groups. In years past, I have seen where they don’t fill all the home school seats and took extra from out of area, but not the other way around. Over time people move in bounds for a popular program (e.g. RM) and they have plenty of qualified applicants to fill up both sets of seats.[/quote]

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