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I don't think you really want to run with the argument that UMC students in a high FARMS rate school are not reaching their full potential.  It runs against the claim embedded in all the pro equity policies that lower SES kids are helped by grouping with high SES kids at no cost to the trajectory of the high SES kids.[/quote]

DP. No, it doesn't. The point you're trying to rebut is that it doesn't hurt non-poor kids to have poor kids at a low-poverty school. Which it doesn't.

But that's not the issue here. The issue here is high-poverty schools. And high-poverty schools aren't good for anybody.

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[b] Presume the purpose of the magnet testing is to try to find children with innate ability that are in need of the opportunities provided in a different school than their home school[/b]

Despite your instructions, I beg to differ.  Much research says there are kids of such high innate ability they are not understood by regular students or teachers. For their own sound development they need to be grouped with peers.  Now with prepping and social engineering, all fine imho, the magnets wander further and further from creating a peer environment for the kids with this unique need.  So be it. Yey for all the hardworkers and those who had unfair barriers placed in front of them by society at large.  That's a different kind of magnet program.[/quote]

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