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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Magnet programs are difficult to get into - especially those that are application and exam based.  Lottery based magnets are luck of the draw.

The first step in Blair Magnet admission is for the student to take the exam and score very well on it to be even considered.  Being in a highly ranked school (called W schools  - Whitman, Wootton, Walter Johnson, Winston Churchill,  BCC)  does not mean that the students will score better than students of lesser ranked schools.   The magnet exam measures performance not your zip-code.

As an Asian American parent of kids who go to these magnet programs, I have to say that I have many Asian American friends and relatives whose children are lucky to go to W schools but they are among the lowest performing students that I have seem. It is easy for them to hide behind the fact that there is some discrimination against Asian Americans. But knowing These individuals and their students abilities, I know that these people are playing the race card too.   For every real case of discrimination, there are many others who will abuse that and blame their failures and race, religion or something else.

School, zipcode, race does not mean that a student belongs to a magnet program.  It is still mainly merit and performance of the student that gets them in the program and the same merit and performance determines if they will thrive in the magnet program or crash and burn.

Everything else is a case of sour grapes. [/quote]
Asian American parent like you who resonates with the thread opener. Perhaps you should have read the whole thread and the arguments. That's what the OP tried to emphasize that magnet selection should not be based on the zip code but unfortunately the selection system is biased and does bring in the zip code and other factors during the selection of the main list and the wait list. [/quote]

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