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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]In addition to in-consortium students, there are ~80 students per grade level (~25%) that are from out-of-consortium. They get a place at the school by lottery (not an academic requirement). All students in the school are considered magnet students, and they all have access to all of the courses and programs offered at the school. Students are placed in academic courses according to their readiness - some students are in all of the highest academic classes (English, Math, Science, World Studies, Language), some students have a mix of the highest classes and regular classes, and some are in just regular classes.[/quote]

Argyle, Parkland and Loederman are terrible examples. These are poorly performing schools that are not desirable to anyone. Their latest PARCC scores show that 70-80% of the kids fail ELA. This is no way competes with the quality of TPMS, Eastern or Blair and no one in their right mind who values academic excellence would choose this model.

A lottery is not a magnet. Saying that a school is a whole magnet when anyone in the school can get in if their grades are high enough and then lowering the standards because not enough kids meet a high standard to get in is not a magnet.

What is VERY concerning is that this is exactly the type of dishonest BS that MCPS pulls. Shut down the real magnets and then slap the name magnet on a bunch of schools without any gifted magnet education going on. The real idea here is to save money on busses and create better optics. [/quote]

There are lots of different ways to be a magnet school, eh? Application-only test-in gifted is not the only way.[/quote]

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