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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it so hard for parents to believe MCPS IS trying to get rid of magnets? Do you really feel the MCPS administrators feel as strongly as you are about the magnet? The number of awards magnet kids get don't save them money. [/quote]

Because my kids are in magnets and [b]I don't see it[/b]. That's why.

You obviously don't have kids in magnets, so you think anything you make up might seem credible. You don't seem credible.[/quote]

If they were, what would you expect to SEE? Do you really think MCPS will be open enough to let you SEE??

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I love this. You want us to trust you instead of trusting our own eyes. Because, um, the lack of hard evidence supposedly proves, rather than disproves, your point.  WTF? You're a loon.[/quote]

And you truly a dumb person. In a bureaucratic system (local, state, or Federal doesn't matter), how do you kill a program? Here is how... I will give you a step-by-step process.

1. you realize you have an issue (in MCPS's case, it's lack of money to support increasing student enrollment - remember how fast MCPS is growing thanks to influx of new people moving in)?
2. you look for places to cut/increase dollar value (why do you think they put the HS late start issue on hold??) Follow me so far?
3. you look for money spent with small return on investment - and guess what? MCPS has obviously decided the way they are running the special program (i.e., magnet) is one of the areas. 
4. you do a study that can be used to "justify" the cuts/changes
5. you implement the changes

So, they are doing step 4 - doing the so called "study" to make their case. They will use the "study" to show/prove/fool how the money can be "better" spent and students will benefit more (i.e., closing the achievement gap) and "improve" the school system.  My guess is it will take a year or two before they can move on to step 5. [/quote]

Look at the student population that is flocking to Blair.  The population that is increasing doesn't represent a tax base that can support the increasing demands on the Blair staff.  So you kill the magnet to free up the cash.

Johnson, the principal at Blair already killed off the program that assigned counselors to the magnet.  She has lost veteran teachers and she is now using nonmagnet teachers to teach magnet math.  Remember that this is the same principal who danced around in videos produced by a precalculus teacher called 2Pi.  Know what happened to him?  He had to leave the school in a hurry.

By killing the magnet Johnson will also become an administrator at headquarters.

It is a win win situation for the main people involved.

Now here's the thing--the Blair principal relies on the accomplishments of the magnet students to tweet the hell out and attract DCC students to Blair.  When the magnet fails Blair becomes just another DCC school.

If you really want a good magnet education -- this is really sad to say -- the Blair magnet is not the place to be.[/quote]

DC tells me that the magnet math teacher was teaching math he learned from a senior magnet kid via tweets.  Look up the tweets on Cardinal and Ordinal numbers.

Most parents do supplement the magnet instruction because there is isn't much magnet instruction anymore.  Those of you who had kids in the magnet please get a life and move on.  The magnet isn't what it used to be. [/quote]

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