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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The TP kids are not any smarter than kids from inbound for Eastern or SSIM and they certainly are not smarter than the kids from Frost, Hoover or Pyle.

The fed investigation is going to see all these white kids from TP with much lower scores than not only the rest of the magnet but from OOB kids that were denied admissions.

You can't say that one school with 25 kids that score well enough to do magnet work need to stay in their home school because they have a cohort yet another school with 25 kids that don't score as high yet can do the work get to be in a magnet.  [/quote]

Where to start with this idiocy?
1. You have no idea how TP kids are scoring. Would you like to see my kids' scores? They were significantly above the median.  No one said TP kids are smarter than any other area, but there certainly are enough to fill the spaces and then some, and they are certainly no less smart than Frost/Hoover/Pyle (not sure why you make a distinction between these schools and others). I will say there was a larger representation of PBES at our HGC several years ago than any other elementary. 
2. Not all kids coming from TP are white. I don't know where you're getting this nonsense.
3. You have completely missed the point of the 25 kids. It's not a cohort thing. It's a resources issue coupled with an integration issue. [b]The TP kids FREE UP spots for out of boundary kids.[/b]

Trump may have made this kind of wishful-thinking "alternative facts"  a thing, but just because you want it to be true does not mean the facts support it. Quit bashing the kids and advocate for more spaces overall.[/quote]

Isn't that a bit wishful thinking?  There are Magnet level teachers and classrooms for 125 kids.  [/quote]

The issue is the building capacity, which is over enrolled; adding 75 more kids outside the boundary would require additional classrooms or portables. [b]Also, you haven't considered the 75 [/b]in boundary kids that wouldn't be in the magnet if none were admitted under the 100 seats but wouldn't disappear because that is their assigned school.  [/quote]

There is no[b] "Also"[/b]. These 75 spots can only be counted once. So if the magnet program remains at the current size but the in-bound seats are given out, the school will need at most  (some of these 
in-bound kids may still get into the program) 75 more spaces, not twice that.[/quote]

I didn't mean that you would count them twice. I was pointing out that the kids don't disappear from the building capacity count. Sorry I was unclear. [/quote]

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