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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous][At other HGC/magnet programs] ... No preference is given to students in that cache.  All applicants compete equally.

The Takoma MS magnet program is open to students from all over the county.  But.  For 25 slots, preference is given to students in a given zone.[/quote]
But that's exactly my point.  [b]At the other HGC/magnet programs, significant preference is given to students in the cache.  For example, to be admitted to Lucy Barnsley, all applicants are competing equally, but only against other students in the same cache. [/b] They are not competing against any Takoma applicants, for example.

If the Takoma magnet were operated on the same principle as Lucy Barnsley and the other magnet/HGC schools, then the Takoma neighborhood applicants would be competing only against other applicants from whatever cache Takoma inhabits.  Your child, and those from other caches, would be precluded from even applying.  However, as Takoma actually operates, it allows students from all over the county to apply, and forces its native-cache students to compete for spots against children from all over the county (with the limited exception of 25 out of 125 slots that are reserved for neighborhood children).

If fairness requires Takoma not to set aside 25 slots for neighborhood children, then shouldn't that same fairness permit Takoma children to compete for slots at Lucy Barnsley? Or alternatively, to prohibit students in the Lucy Barnsley cache/cluster from applying to Takoma magnet?

Maybe I'm not understanding the link between "cache" and "cluster".  I appreciate your patience in trying to explain. [/quote]

But that's not the same thing.  The HGC programs are by definition organized regionally.  They are organized by neighborhood.  And for e.g. the Lucy Barnsley center, the Lucy Barnsley applicants are not given any sort of preference over kids from other elementary schools.

Not so wrt the TPMS magnet.  Kids slated for TPMS are given preference in that there are slots reserved for them.

My question is, why?  PP's explanation makes no sense.[/quote]

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