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This is very rational and logical if you think the goal of the magnets is to provide an appropriate education to gifted students. Historically, this has never been the goal for MCPS. The magnets were designed to attract white, wealthy students into low performing schools or save under enrolled schools. MCPS has never taken the position that it has any responsibility to educate gifted students beyond baseline proficiency. [b]BOE members and MCPS have been on record many times stating that the outcomes for high performing students is not different if they do not get a gifted education therefore resources need to be spent on the growing number of students who are failing.[/b] They claim that since gifted kids will still go to a 4 year college regardless of being in a gifted education program that it it is not necessary for them.

Now that there are enough white MC students in the low performing schools that needed them, the changes are the first step toward either shutting down the magnets to re-allocate the resources to low performing students or move the magnets into lower performing schools. Anyone who does not see the writing on the wall that MCPS wants to move away from the bus and programmatic expense of magnets that pull from large areas of the county is being naive. [/quote]

Could you cite two examples of BoE members and MCPS stating this on the record, please?[/quote]

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