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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm starting to wish "I was promised all magnet kids" poster would just move her kids to private and be done with it. At a public school, your kid will occasionally rub shoulders, and even share classes, with kids who don't meet your high standards.

You're going to have to cope with that, or just shell out for an environment in which every single snowflake is hand selected. [/quote]

Calling magnet parents/students "snowflake", "elitist" or "purist" does not make school/MCPS's dishonesty or duplicity about the program go away. You do not own the public school system. I have same right to critic a opaque system. Just because you do not appreciate academic giftedness in kids and their specific need does not make you more correct in this discussion. My high standard is to hold public officials to honesty and integrity standard.

This thread is about what MCPS says to the community and what is actually does behind the curtain. Having a backdoor is not okay. Magnet programs should operate to fulfill their promise or should be closed so that parents can decide what to do with their kids education. Lip service about gifted education is what MCPS is doing for a while and I do not condone playing politics with the education of our future generation.[/quote]

So, how long are you going to keep calling your child "highly gifted?"  Into college? At their first job? Will you call their future boss and make sure their boss understands that they cannot possibly be subjected to the masses?

It honestly seems like an odd framing for a 17 year-old. It's a framing you normally see applied to elementary and middle schoolers, not young people on the cusp of adulthood. [/quote]

If you believe this why do not you advocate for MCPS to abolish all the magnet programs. I would support it if you do that. I did not create the magnet school system. I am only asking the system the operate the way it was intended to do. If it cannot, there is no reason to waste public money and time with all these identification of qualified students in 8th grade and then opening up a backdoor later. MCPS parents with special need for their students can decide whether to stay in the public school system or go somewhere else.[/quote]

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