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[quote=Anonymous][quote]save money on busses 
create better test scores 
make skilled, educated families buy homes closer to whole magnet schools 
hope that highly performing kids' habits rubs off on the poorly performing kids 
close the achievement gap 
half the teachers live north of MoCo, closer to these schools 
show that Central Office is doing something, anything[/quote]

Please get an economist or someone who has actual analytical ability!

You will not raise scores unless it is a test in magnet taking the highest students in a wide enough area to be competitive. Like A,P and L where the majority of the students are low performing if 80% of the seats must be filled by in boundary students for that school only and you place it in a low performing area you have to lower the standards to fill the seats.  80% of the students at A,P and L based on their current test scores could not get close to meeting the bar that exists for TPMS or Eastern.

Imagine that you moved the Blair magnet program to Kennedy and said that only 20% of the current SMAC students could test in and the rest of the students would come from Kennedy. How is that going to work out?

No one is going to move there just because MCPS slaps a magnet label on it.

Why does it matter that teachers live north? How would this give anyone a shorter commute? Do you work at TPMS and you only support this so you can work closer to home?

Central office doing something? Ha! LOL - yes its the central office making another terrible decision that wrecks education. This crew really excels at failure.

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