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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]This gets proven over and over. MCPS has been trying to do this with the Magnet programs and CES programs in ES being placed in lower-performing schools. It’s been tried in other areas as well and it rarely does anything to close the achievement gap.[/quote]

I want to push back on this specifically, as a parent who has had kids in CES programs and the TPMS middle school magnet.

At the CES level (my kids were at Pine Crest), I would not expect the presence of the CES to have any benefit to the home school, since the kids never mingle. It is a school within a school. Now, I think Pine Crest is a fine school, but the presence of absence of a CES program does nothing for the kids at that school who are not in the program.

At TPMS, there is more "mingling" between magnet and home school kids in the classes that are not magnet courses, but there is nothing wrong with TPMS without the magnet. My experience has been that the school is well-run, and that the "mixed" classes are just fine. That is, I don't think my magnet child is doing anything to "help" TPMS because it is a great school with or without my magnet kid. [/quote]

That is because TPMS drew its boundaries to avoid the poorest parts of Takoma Park. Completely accidental I am sure, or maybe another example of hypocrisy [/quote]

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