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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, can we please make more magnet spots and put them in the worst performing schools, please?  There has to be SOME benefit to normal people from all the social engineering.[/quote]

Maybe not.  FCPS AAP (competitive entry) and to some extent IB were designed to do exactly this.  If the school is bad enough. Kids won’t opt in and will stay with affluent peers.   And you end up with AAP LLIV and FCPS Eastern County IBs, which are a disaster.

If the school is okay bit not great, you end up with a school within a school, with some kids running circles around everyone else. It does nothing to being the bottom up, although it does stabilize the school ranking.  Magnet kids are segregated.

I have a kids who went through an affluent LLIV AAP to AAP Center MS, and one to TJ, one pupil placed for IB (one of the three good IB schools).  My kids have gotten an excellent education. I saw nothing in the AAP Center or IB magnet that made me think the non-magnet kids were getting any benefit. To some extent, I think it hurt, because the magnet kids took opportunities from the non-magnet kids, since academic teams can only have so many kids. And it made them feel second class.

Now, I do think FCPS should add a Western County TJ. And consolidate into a centrally located, competitive entry IB magnet.  As long as a kid can pass the entrance exam and keep up with the pace (which is brutal), we should be giving a TJ education to every kid we can.  And a top notch IB education. And a fine arts magnet education.  With busing.  And without respect to which school they are zoned for.   If the kid has the talent and drive, we should be looking for ways to create a slot for them.

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