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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  One child in magnet, one in local "W" feeder school.  If the magnet were watered down, as it inevitably will have to be if decision-makers put demographics ahead of ability, then we would decide that the magnet is no longer worth the commute.  Our child would return to our home school.  I have no doubt that many if not most people from high-performing clusters will make similar decisions.  Then you are left with more segregation than you had before.  Remember that magnets were originally designed to voluntarily integrate schools.  At TPMS, for example, magnet kids are integrated into the school for all classes except the three magnets.  Take away a true magnet, and you take away the voluntary desegregation and are right back where MCPS started.  [/quote]
+1.
There are a couple of reasons why my child has benefitted from the magnet programs in MS and HS.  The first is the curriculum and the second is the peer group.  Although it is a tough commute from our "W" feeder neighborhood to Blair SMAC I know my kid is gaining a lot from being with the top math and science students from 16 high school clusters.  If admission to these programs was not based purely on merit, I don't think these programs would be as attractive to our family.  I do wish the SMAC program was more diverse but on the whole I believe that the program is stronger by virtue of having the kids who are most able and most motivated to succeed.  
The whole situation is messed up.  First MCPS puts both middle school magnets in Silver spring as a way of integrating these schools and now they are unhappy that so many of the kids in the programs are white and Asian.  So first you make kids ride on buses for hours each day to get to these programs and then you tell them you wish they were a different color/race.  
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