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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the whole  magnet thing racist and favoring rich people in general even with the lottery.

A top 100 school district in another state did away with then for “equity” reasons around 20 years ago.

They took that money and instead of focusing on the top 5 percent of students spent it in a new type of magnet school for  the bottom 5 percent of students to provide remedial help, better teacher to student rations, provide autistic and help special needs kids and kids with emotional issues.

Why did well off straight A  white and Asian kids with college educated parents need extra help.

It is like putting Tom Brady on a bad football team and deciding let’s only give Tom Brady extra help. No you spend resources on the players that need it not the already great players. [/quote]

This whole thread reminds me of the NYT podcast Nice White Parents. Privledged, wealthy people who think the public school owes them something special because they’re enrolling precious Larla in their local school system and who feed off exclusion at the expense of a vast majority of children. That there are so many people who are freaking out because a small number of kids who are very bright and capable and who will likely be successful in the magnet have been admitted despite not being 99th percentile is absurd - and shows how entitled so many parents on this forum are. No wonder MCPS is going to the crapper. Parents like these drain resources and divert attention from a majority of the children in the school. [/quote]

I think the complaint stems from randomness being used as a means of selection over actual merit to ensure a politically motivated demographic outcome.[/quote]

It also stems from the complete lack of differentiated instruction for kids not in the magnet. Math is tracked, but English is not. That means that you have kids in the 99th percentile who just weren't "lucky" in the lottery in the same class as kids who didn't read in English until last year. As a result, no one is assigned books. All of the assigned reading is these short little sections from Benchmark, with no class discussion or analysis. Writing assignments are scarce and ungraded. MCPS has totally abdicated its responsibility to these kids. [/quote]

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