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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These are not real magnets. They are lotteries. MCPs is too cheap to staff interesting electives at every MA so they pick and choose what ends up in each of the DCC middle schools under the guise of a “magnet”. A true magnet would involve an application, and in the case of the performing arts, an audition.[/quote]

A magnet is a school with offerings which attract students from outside its attendance area. [/quote]

[b]They are using it to entice students to go from other schools that are brighter and have higher test scores[/b].  It's not a magnet and just offering specialty classes.  Past few years multiple students have gone back to their home schools from Loiederman.  The arts program is meh.[/quote]

Which is what magnets often do.[/quote]

Yes, but the programs are not for smart or gifted and very basic.  Its not a real magnet.  Its a fancy name for specializing.[/quote]

Magnets aren't necessarily "fancy." All it means is a school that draws students from other areas. [/quote]

That’s one type of magnet: Another type of "magnet school" or "magnet program" emerged in the United States in the 1970s[1] as one means of remedying racial segregation in public schools, and they were written into law in Section 5301 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization.[2] Demographic trends following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education US Supreme Court decision revealed a pattern later characterized as white flight, the hypersegregation of blacks and whites, as the latter moved to the suburbs.[3][4] This second type of magnet can often take the form of "a school within a school," meaning that the school may have no competitive admissions for the majority of the school population, and even the magnet program itself may not have fully competitive admissions. This is consistent with the equity-based objectives of such programs.

The “school within a school” part is the most concerning because this is happening all over MCPS but people only focus on the overall demographics of a school. This is akin to separate but equal IMO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_school

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