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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those of you with young smart kids, you are screwed. You don’t know it now but by the time your kids’ are ready for HS, you will see. [/quote]

People with young smart kids have had virtually no magnet access for them based on the current flawed MCPS approach of only providing magnet spots to a tiny number of kids countywide. If others are anything like me, we are freaking thrilled at the idea that MCPS might be changing this approach to provide more slots for more kids, and hoping it will lead to the same at the middle and elementary school level as well.  More than 1-2% of the kids in this county deserve advanced programming. [/quote]

The top 1-2% deserve their own program. The rest of the smart kids have access to AP or IB already. [/quote]

Actually they don’t deserve anything.  It’s a privilege and frankly one not afford to most kids nationwide.

Further, Blair has about 100 seats out of at least 11,250 students county wide and at least 1000 applications.[/quote]

It’s a really sick society that doesn’t want to provide education and cultivate its smartest kids. Are you also against everything highly selective? [/quote]

DP but this is just a twisted take.  I am an Ivy PhD myself so I am pretty in favor of highly selective but there is not a way to provide the absolute best to every single student.  I believe that public school should be serving more students.  Opponents of this plan are arguing that the top 1% will suffer if we do not keep them isolated from the next couple of percentage points.  Well, those next couple of percentage points worth of kids will benefit from the expansion of the magnet model, and it will not be the same if the very best go to Blair etc and they have next tier access.  Honors programs have winners and losers.  The top students benefit from more segregation of course but the next tier of students lose in this scenario every time.  In a public school you have to find a balance between competing aims across different ability levels.[/quote]

Reader, they didn’t care about the “next 2%” either. [/quote]

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