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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably because they don't want a situation where a host school has no kids in the actual program creating a "town vs. gown" type of situation where the host community resents the privileged selected few.  It makes sense to me.[/quote]

I could see that if the host school were guaranteed a PROPORTIONAL share of seats. But they were talking about giving 1 school out of 5, not 20% of seats, but 33%. [/quote]

Yes, exactly.  This would make sense.  The issue is that people like Jeannie Franklin have somehow internalized the idea that "giving the host school extra seats is best" based on past examples of advanced academic magnets placed in high-FARMS schools, and apparently doesn't have the mental flexibility to realize that applying this to give Whitman more humanities seats than Northwood is outrageous.[/quote]

What if Whitman doesn’t want a bunch of Northwood kids. There is two groups that need a balance struck. [/quote]

Then you send your kids to a private school where you can control who your kids go to school with.  Otherwise you share a county and a school district with the rest of us, and you don't get to decide who goes where.

But honestly, as distasteful as what you just said is, we probably all have aligned interests here.  None of us want Whitman to host programs that are a highly desirable draw for students from other schools.  Tell MCPS you don't want the humanities magnet and stick with some program no one else cares about, and we'll all be happy.[/quote]

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