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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Traditional magnets solve this problem by putting the programs in the poor schools!

Rich kids transport or stay home in their "regular" programs that are as good as an "average" magnet, and poor kids are local to the magnet [/quote]

It’s overly glib to think that’s a solution. That just siphons some advanced kids off from other similar schools leaving a smaller advanced cohort behind. And it doesn’t help the kids at the school that houses the magnet who don’t get into the magnet because MCPS inevitably will make it a lottery or not offer enough seats for the number of kids who qualify. Just offer advanced courses at all schools and call it a day![/quote]

DP I mean it does bring in staff who are qualified to teach advanced courses. And I assume kids in magnet programs don't take every single course as a cohort?

That being said I agree that magnets are not a good solution. MCPS should end magnets instead of

- creating a bunch of new ones and 
- putting many of the academic magnets in high income schools.[/quote]

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