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[quote=Anonymous]I don't think MCPS sees the pull integration as necessary anymore. By definition that is a program designed to attract and support white/asian students into the magnets which at least on the surface seems to be the opposite of trying to equal things out. The schools with magnets don't need to them to survive. Poolesville, Blair and maybe RM are already over capacity -neither school would shut down if the magnets ended. It makes no sense to spend $$$ busing kids in from other areas to schools that are already overcrowded.

I predict that this may be the last year for the magnet program. MCPS needs money both for a curriculum replacement and to expand the extended school year program. The writing is on the wall that the money for this is going to come from shutting down the gifted/magnet programs across the county and having the new curriculum offer some sort of gifted level in the home schools.

Poolesville will survive, Blair will survive. Richard Montgomery will survive.[/quote]

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