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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
But why not? It is easy to destroy. And we can claim a quick victory. [/quote]
The 4 middle school magnet programs enroll 400 students. That's top 400/12000=3.3% of the students.

Now they have a lottery for the top 15%. With local norming, some in the top 20% or 25% are included in the lottery.

Instead of programs for the top 3.3%, they now have programs for the top 20% or 25%.

These are not the same programs, and I don't see how they can keep the same rigor.

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Agreed the rigor will be lost because it used to be a tough program designed for top 3% students, it will impact the kids selected based on lottery ( behind the scenes not actually lottery) and either more kids will drop out  not being able to keep up or they will lower the standard of the program. They should stop calling it for gifted students and name it something else like equal opportunity program for all races…[/quote]
Thomas Sowell agrees. https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/12/17/sowell-do-the-real-facts-not-matter-at-all-in-college-admissions-debate/[/quote]

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