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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is funny about unintended consequences, the magnet was developed to get UMC mostly white kids to self opt into minority schools. After a few decades minority parents looked up and saw a bunch of white and Asian kids in there school with the best classes and all the other carrots that got those kids to opt in originally. Outrage ensues and the system reacts and starts to make the carrots “less targeted” and more open and those parents would never ever send there kids to schools like eastern, TP or Blair are now pissed that they are losing their private-lite education for their kids that they didn’t really need in the first place. They cry system biases as the real biases that favored them are eliminated, little tone deft.

The question is if the county will continue to disproportionately fund a program that spends lots but only helps a handful of kids but doesn’t boost the paper diversity and test score targets. Part of the draw of the old program wasn’t that it got the smart kids but it got the motivated families. It is yet to be seen if kids who qualify but don’t have pushy parents or the money to keep up will reach the heights of pervious classes. It will be interesting 
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I dislike the magnet programs generally because I would much rather prefer truly accelerated (and difficult, like you can get a C or D even if bright if you don't work hard) programs within the home schools themselves, particularly the high schools.   I understand the arguments against differentiated classes, but magnet system is worse.[/quote]

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