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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait what greater good? In the end the % of URM minorities in the magnet barely changed but there are more lower scoring white kids than higher scoring asian kids. What greater good is it serving to admit a whit kid with 97% and turn away an asian kid with a 99%?

This didn't help poor AA or Latino kids. This helped mediocre white kids in lower performing schools and these kids already special seats set aside for them.

Just remove the special set aside for 1-2 dozen spots reserved for in boundary TP students who don't have to compete against the rest of the schools. Re-allocate those seats to minority FARMS students while letting the rest of the seats go to the highest performing kids. Will there be angry white Takoma Park parents? Yes but let them either work harder to score higher, move to private or move to a W school if they can't stand to be at TP if their snowflake isn't the magnet. [/quote]

Totally agree with this. It is fine to change the program, so why not get rid of these set aside seats. It would be interesting to see the racial makeup of the kids who benefit from those seats. Who cares if the school is over capacity. Most of MCPS schools are over capacity.

It's also time to move the HS magnets out of Blair and over to Kennedy.[/quote]

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