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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t support this because the losers will be advanced kids in poor schools. They will never have the class options that their counterparts in rich schools do, because classes are based on demand. Magnets help those kids.[/quote]

I can tell you have no experience with “poor” schools. There are academically advanced students at every single school and every single school should offer advanced classes. You might have fewer sections of some courses at some schools, as someone else said, but you don’t not offer advanced classes. And you don’t siphon off advanced learners from “poorer” schools to send them to other schools because that exacerbates the problem. [/quote]

Not trying to pick a fight here. My personal experience is with Einstein and Northwood. Of course there are academically advanced students there. But they don’t offer as many APs because there aren’t as many students (and parents) clambering for them like there are at WJ and Whitman. I would totally support it if somehow all the schools had to offer the same classes, but I don’t see that ever happening. A school won’t run a class without a certain base number of kids in it.[/quote]

If only there was a group of education professionals who were in charge of setting standards that all schools have to meet. And if only there was money somewhere for this, it's not like they are currently proposing creating a massive number of new programs and bus routes that few people seem to actually want.[/quote]

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