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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a parent or maybe a handful of parents on this thread who want you to believe that the Blair magnet is top to bottom geniuses doing "post college" work.

That's not true. Even within the magnet, only about 1 in 5 meet that definition, if that.

By no definition of "public education" should we be making policy based solely on the needs of the top 20% of the top 1%. [/quote]

Top 20% of top 1% shouln't stop thousands of students attending regional magnet. [/quote]

+2  The way MCPS selects kids for the magnets is problematic in the first place.  Restricting enrichment activity to so few just compounds the problem. [/quote]

We should be expanding access and preserving successful programs. This shouldn’t be an either/or situation. Shame on MCPS on only focusing on one type equity but not the other types. Equity doesn’t mean dismantling what works; it means making sure more students have the opportunity to benefit from it.

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I would agree is the resources were available.  In this case it sounds like there isn’t a good enough teacher for certain classes in the magnet, meaning there wouldn’t be six.

But also it sounds like what the magnet wants in a teacher is actually someone with a PhD in some STEM or math field.  I’m not sure if you are going to find a lot of those willing to teach high school.[/quote]

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