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Reply to "Anyone know the history of why the magnets are all in the Takoma Park/Silver Spring area?"
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[quote=Anonymous]to really understand these decisions, you have to work through history of school openings, school closures, redlining in housing, desegregation in housing. There is no one easy pat answer. Magnets provide incentives to move kids from overutilized areas to underutilzed - put a bright lovely program in the underutilized school. it makes sense. If magnets stop working - the school system will move on to other solutions. I have heard that new haven and/or nyc has a complex matching application process even for lower grades. NYC high school matching process was designed by nobel prize winners. Moco is moving in an urban direction and urban solutions could be adopted. Not saying they are good or bad - but if magnet programs stop working other solutions might be less pleasant for the wealthy folks in western moco. I don't think bethesda wants a new haven model - but lobby against the locaiton of magnets and you might get it. [/quote]
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