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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Give me a break. Get off your elitist high horse. Maybe their child actually NEEDS a magnet. Maybe their child is checked out at school otherwise or has an IQ of 160 and is otherwise depressed and unhappy. Maybe their family is dirt poor and they see the magnets as their way to a better life.

I do not prep my child but I see nothing wrong with prepping and I think if it helps their child they deserve to get in. You act like it's easy for these kids to go to these programs and study. They work hard. Their parents sacrifice other opportunities to send them to these classes. If they do well they deserve to get in.

I'm from NY where most of the kids who go to Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech and Sty are poor and their parents managed to squeeze money out of their budget to take prep classes. FWIW, many of the poorest families are Asian.[/quote]

Children that NEED a magnet should test into it just fine if it's a level playing field, correct?

Mucking up the waters with prepped kids would be counterintuitive to that, correct?

Who do you really want the program to be for?  The kids that need it to get in, or the kids that are driven and prepped by their parents money to get in?

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