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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure that a whole school magnet is a school that only offers magnet-level classes like TJ. What would be the point of calling something a whole school magnet when large portions of the student body take an entirely different set of classes.

Churchill, Whitman or Wootton are the only school where 80-90% of the student body could qualify for magnet level classes and even with though schools 90% of the kids would not want to do magnet level work. What would you do with the 10-20% that aren't magnet level- bus them out of the school boundary? Plus Wootton takes in  kids with learning disabilities that come from the learning center at Dufief so that wouldn't be fair to those kids who have a mainstream experience now. It doesn't seem like MCPS has any desire to make the W schools more attractive.

Most districts do offer magnet only schools like TJ and it is better than the hodge podge of programs all over the county but it wouldn't make any sense to think an "open door" magnet would stop the school within a school problem. MCPS could use the Brickyard site as a test-in only magnet with no preference for residential boundaries like other schools and shut down the other magnets. Poolesville would have a problem with low enrollment and Blair people would have a nervous breakdown if they lost their magnets. However, no one in MCPS cares about Poolesville much and Blair is over capacity so taking out the magnet is probably on the MCPS radar. [/quote]

You are associating magnet with advanced classes.  That is not accurate.  A magnet can be teaching at any level, it is just a school that pulls from a wider area usually due to some type of "hook".  It could be advanced classes or it could be a language option or it could be an interest in the arts..  [/quote]

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