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But probably the most important thing is that the TPMS magnet itself appears to have done a cost-benefit.  They think the benefits to the community outweigh the costs of any (theorized) lower performance.  Specifically, in a lot of these immersion and other programs, there is a lot of hostility gbetween magnet/program and local kids, and TPMS has avoided this by including in-boundary.[/quote]

How does the inclusion of in-boundary kids this way "benefit the community"?[/quote]

You need to re-read the quote you're responding to.

In lots of MoCo schools where there is a special program inserted into a larger school, there is a lot of tension between the immersion/magnet kids and the rest of the school.  There is a perception that the magnet/immersion kids are getting more resources per kid than the rest of the school.  Or that the magnet/immersion kids think they are special.

A case in point is Sligo Creek ES, where the Academy kids (rest of the school) often really resent the immersion kids.  I know because my kid went to the immersion program and got beat up by academy kids, and I know other immersion kids who also got beat up.  
 
Another case in point:  at TPMS, there has been a lot of tension because the magnet kids got to go to Disneyland/Boston/wherever in 8th grade, and the rest of the school did not.  In fact the rest of the school held protests about the trips the 8th grade magnet kids were taking.  The Disneyland/Boston/whatever trip for the magnet kids was done away with last year.  But the point is, there can be tension between magnet and non-magnet kids, unless a school does something pro-active like TPMS is doing with the in-boundary kids.

If you reserve some slots in the immersion program/magnet for local kids, then there is less tension because the rest of the school sees their friends/kids from their own neighborhood in the magnet/immersion program.

But clearly you don't want to be persuaded.  Maybe somebody else will find this useful (or actually read it).[/quote]

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