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Reply to "Which HS magnets is your child turning down?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are two types of magnets. There are lottery magnets and criteria-based application magnets. For the latter the invited students are selected by a committee. Each school or program has its own committee so the selections at one school are made independent of other schools.[/quote] What's the rationale for maintaining these strictly merit-based systems for a select group of magnets when MCPS is moving all the others at other grade levels to a strict lottery system once kids qualify? Does equity not count for some schools? [/quote] It's not like they are keeping TPMS a lottery while making Roberto Clemente a first-past-the-post test-in magnet. They are differentiating between a program one applies to at 10 and a program one applies to at 13, under the assumption that broadening the pool at 10 will get you more highly qualified kids at 13. [/quote]
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