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[quote=Anonymous]Full disclosure: I'm a huge proponent of the magnets. I've got two kids in them and they have been a true necessity for both of them both socially and academically. Home elementary was a disaster for them and without magnets, we would have switched to private long ago. When my oldest was applying to Takoma, there were two kids, one AA and one Latino, who were and are smart and hard workers. It stunned us that neither got into the middle school magnets. Both did apply. I've followed one of them through middle school and he is still an all A student who is highly motivated. It seems to me that in researching and studying this issue, the county can look for some sampling of these kids and dig deeper into what is holding this set of kids out of the magnet. Agree with others that economic status is a key indicator of academic preparation. Will say that one of these kids was a recent immigrant child with a supportive family. The other was higher SES.[/quote]
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