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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it seems like the good news is that it gave alot of poorer and disadvantaged students access to higher performing schools.

The bad news is that almost every wealthy kid who was zoned to a lower performing school opted out.  So long run, unless you can figure out a way to get wealthy families to willingly go to these schools, all you are doing is creating greater competition for limited seats in good schools while not actually improving the educational opportunities at poorer schools.

So how do you actually create buy-in?  Move a very large cohort of wealthier students with the hope that enough of them will go? Create specialty programs?  Only offer certain sought-after programs at these schools?   I don't know what it would take. 
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I went to a magnet program that bussed in white and Asians into an 80% minority school that was failing. We did bring the scores up. But we didn’t really mix with the regular kids. Just PE and sex Ed. There wasn’t really the option for the regular kids to even get into my classes. To get to Calc BC you’d need algebra and geometry in middle school. [/quote]

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