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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you live outside of Silver Spring, you may be too far away to participate in extracurriculars, evening activities, parent-teacher conferences, etc.  By the time your kid gets home (possibly an hour or hour-half depending on traffic, each way) they'll be exhausted.

You have to remember that the Magnets were placed in Silver Spring and Poolesville because it discourages enrollment.  Aside from catering to in-boundary, it's hell for kids in mid-county.

If you don't like that, I'd recommend voting out the current board of education so they can fire McKnight and get it fixed.  Even if you vote, know it's an uphill battle since you can vote for board members not representing your own district.  This means that Silver Spring voters rule the roost since they outnumber other districts in terms of voter population.[/quote]

That's not true. They were placed in Takoma and Poolesville because those areas had the highest concentration of highly gifted students. [/quote]

Sorry, but that is just not true. Read the Metis report if you want to know the history.[/quote]

+1 Both PPs are wrong. This is not unknowable information. Newspapers existed when the program was placed at TPMS and the stated rationale was to ensure that the school remained integrated during a period of white flight from Silver Spring/Takoma Park. It "pulled" white and Asian kids into the school, but also made the school more attractive to families who might be tempted to leave in the 1980s.

It worked, the school stayed integrated and Takoma Park remains a highly desired place to live. Yay!

I do want to pull out the PP's comment that Silver Spring "rules the roost" because of voter population. Yes, that's how democracy works. Unicorporated Silver Spring is about 30% of the county by sheer size and about 60% of the county by population. If other districts want more voters, they can build dense housing in their communities as well. [/quote]

Was this back in the day when Georgetown was a ghetto? LOL  Newsflash but the world has changed much over the past 30+ years. [/quote]

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