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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is it true that 25 seats are reserved for inbound students?  Can anyone provide an official cite for this info? [/quote]

It's true and IMO MCPS should restrict the entire program to in-boundary students since it would reduce busing costs.[/quote]

:roll: Where are you going to get the super-achievers from then?  The majority of in-bound students are low performing. The high performing in-bound students are already in the program.  The program by itself does not make the super-achievers.  Families and SES plays a role.  Bethesda and Potomac still remains the best bet to provide that support to their students as well as providing the usual high achieving racial groups.

Do you expect high performing students and their highly educated and successful parents to leave their Bethesda homes and move to TPMS?  They would rather go to their home W school.  The whole magnet program and the attempt to close the achievement gap will fail if these students start going to their home schools.  Eventually, the losers will be those high achieveing students from all racial groups who are not rich enough to be in Bethesda.  [/quote]

Are you out of your mind?  Sorry your Bethesda/Potomac child did not get in.  There are high achieving kids everywhere.  The set aside of the 25 seats is a historical compromise, but it doesn't really matter anymore.  TP is a very intellectual area (lots of college professors live there and other science-y types) and their kids are very bright.  The TP kids perform very well and likely would've gotten in anyway.[/quote]

In which case why not remove the historical precedent and allow them to compete with the general population. [/quote]

Let's explain this one more time.  The magnet is 100 seats, all the other seats in the school are for inbound students.  The magnet cannot be expanded to, say 125 seats, unless someone finds a new home for 25 inbound students.  Simple enough.  However, when inbound students are accepted to the magnet, that actually frees up a seat in the regular population.  So if the magnet is expanded by one classroom set aside for inbound students, it actually means there's slightly less competition for the 100 seats and it means the impact of the magnet on overall enrollment is predictable.  Yes, there may be a slight advantage to the inbound students (but you'd need to know exactly how many would have been in the top 100 anyway to determine that), but it isn't at a cost to anyone outside the magnet.  Also, the magnet teachers would have to teach some non-magnet class to be full time, it makes sense to just teach one more section of the magnet class.[/quote]

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