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[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]

There is no way MCPS is creating an entire school filled with poor performing brown kids. The optics would never fly.[/quote]

It is actually super smart to do. The town I mentioned has a top 100 in US non magnet public school. As high or higher TJ some years. What they did is legally create a second HS. The second HS has no name on building and listed only as a special HS so Niche sends you to the town top rated school.

My sister lives their an examples are a mom died, kids grades slipping, her friend had big medical issues one semester, ESL kids, kids vocational track. Voluntary special needs kids, bullied kids,  or handicapped. It is not me to be four years a place to have extra attention. Get you back on track.

But what it does is pulls up the scores on the Public HS way up.

I recall the principal once saying (Asian and shire parents are it up) unlike other school districts HS  with magnet and gifted learning for their few gifted students our HS is 100 percent gifted students. We graduate 100 percent gifted and high performing students and unlike other towns where only a select few get this type of amazing education.

It truly was part scam and part genius. He got the egos of the white and Asian parents fed. School rating to shoot up and was able to serve the students who needed most help. [/quote]

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