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Who cares what the reasons are?  I don't care about your reasons, PP, and neither does the school system.

Rules are rules.  Brilliant kids are brilliant kids. 
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The magnets were created to desegregate - plain and simple. [/b] [b]Geographically, some applicants have an advantage, as those in clusters where people are happy with their homes schools usually do not apply.  [/b]

We are in such a cluster where few apply.  I'm not desperate to get my kids out of their home base.  But if you can't stand your middle school, the magnet is a way out - and sometimes a direct avenue to Blair's magnets.  [/quote]

Huh?  Are you the crazy troll teacher who was posting a few days back on this forum? Your post makes no sense whatsoever. Are you bipolar?

You say it if for brilliant kids, but that the magnets were actually created to desegregate? So which is it?  And I really did not know that the schools in MCPS were segregated.

You say some kids have a geographical advantage because people from better schools do not apply?  So that would mean that Coldsprings ES HGC should not have any student in it because it is in the heart of "W" schools cluster, and there would be no competition to get in.  So the median scores to get in should be lower than other HGC schools - whereas in fact it is higher.

If you are in a cluster where few apply, should your child not have a better chance of getting in, since she took the test. Oh wait - yeah, she is not brilliant.  So, she really does not have geographical advantage...or does she?  But, you do not want to leave the home base, so why are you on this thread if your kids are not interested in this track.

And if magnets are not really that desirable except for people in bad middle schools then I bet no one would even care to get into Blair magnet because it is a part of the same desegregation effort where kids from good home schools do not come.  So, should that not change the demographics of Blair magnet?  Should it not have less Asians and Whites from high SES households?

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