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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Starr interview
http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/people/montgomery-county-school-chief-joshua-starrs-biggest-problemeveryone-wants-to-go-to-his-schools/

Washingtonian: Is one solution to change the actual demographic makeup of the schools through school choice?

Starr: We recently put out a request-for-proposal for a major study of our choice processes. I was superintendent in Stamford, Connecticut, a tenth the size of Montgomery County but almost the same demographics. We had a rule that said every school must look like the district as a whole, within 10 percent. We don’t have that in Montgomery County.

[b]Magnets are being dismantled becuase it "must look like the district as a whole, within 10 percent."[/b]

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Huh? The magnets ENHANCE diversity in their schools, that's why they're placed where the are. Also the magnets are extremely valuable to MCPS for reasons noted in other posts. [/quote]

Duh.  Magnets are schools within schools.  Minorities whine that there are very few of their demographic in the magnet.  So, open up the magnet to anyone who wants it.  As the kids are brought in to jerrymander the demographic make up more begin to fail.  The end result is standards are diminished.  At a school where there are large numbers of least prepared kids the standards are lowered to a level that is below what you would see at a "W" school.

That is how you kill magnets.[/quote]

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