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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me the rationale for host school "set-asides" for seats in magnet programs? I believe for example the Richard Montgomery IB program currently does this for in-bound students. But to my knowledge, Blair's SMCS program does not - do I have that right?

I was kind of gobsmacked to hear at today's BoE meeting that they want to continue this practice, which seems totally inequitable to me, in the future 6 region model. It was kind of hard to follow with numbers being thrown around quickly without a lot of discussion on it, but what I think I caught was that they were thinking of having ~30 seats per program allocated to the host school for in-boundary students, and then another ~60 seats allocated for the 4 other schools in a particular reason. So you'd have twice the odds of admittance if you live in-boundary for that school's program. That seems to go against the entire idea of what they say they want to do, which is reduce the current inequitable access to magnet programs.[/quote]

Your numbers are slightly off. They said 25-30 for this particular program in this particular school would be for home school students, which is I think is loosely based on whatever the current proportion is now of students in that school so those folks don’t lose or gain seats. That region only has 4 schools so each of the 3 other schools would get 20 seats although it’s unclear whether it’s a quota or just an estimate to arrive at a total. The difference between 20 seats and 25-30 seats is not huge/significant and may just reflect what they assume will be greater interest by kids who are already zoned and don’t want to move schools.

But yeah, the set asides thing has always been unfair and I am so tired of MCPS using unfair ways of selecting kids when they have more logical tools. [/quote]

If the kids are at this particular school they can often just access the classes which makes it unfair.  [/quote]

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