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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low income students can't travel far. They have jobs and sibling care responsibilities. So if you put magnets in the high income schools, you basically siphon off highest resourced high performing students from the low income schools. The kids that are left have a very small cohort and the school can no longer sustain advanced coursework. It is truly better not to have a magnet at all
High income students already have advanced classes at their home schools.

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This. No more all county magnets. Focus resources on all the home schools so all kids have access to challenging course. And be ok that sometimes it's 10 kids in a hard class in some schools. [/quote]

This I would be okay with. I wish they would just build up all of the county high schools. But the DCC parents seem very against this with the theory that their children haven't had equal access to classes even though they have the magnets and consortium. It's not magically better in the low FARMS school. They have classes with 35-40 students too. They don't deserve to get ignored or looked down upon just because they are in a different area of the county.[/quote]

Magnets and consortiums have limited spots.  Not everyone realizes that its an issue till they are at that school and its too late. Why shouldn't all kids get what your kids have?[/quote]

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