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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sws has become what is known as a magnet school ( no neighborhood boundary, drawing from district as a whole based on special interest/curriculum).  Logan Montessori is also a magnet school.  We also have high schools ( some with nominal applications ) that act as magnet schools. I.e. nobody has geographic right of entry.  What I find baffling is that after multiple proposals and efforts, DCPS has refused to implement a magnet school at the middle school level. This is arguably when it could most impact and keep families invested in the system.

So DCPS embraces magnets for ages 3 to 10 and 14 to 18 but rejects them for ages 11-13.  [b]What could be the reasoning here[/b]?[/quote]

Easy one.  Politicians terrified that the students in any test-in ms program would be overwhelmingly white and Asian if the admissions test/process were remotely fair, causing the floodgates of blacklash to open and before election days.  By  the time HS rolls around, they're aren't nearly enough white students left in dcps for a test-in program to be overwhelmingly white, or for anybody much to complain about affirmative action admissions (keeping many highly qualified white kids out SWW in favor of admitting less qualified AA students).  MS magnets/test in programs are a prospect that puts the fear of god in pols who reject gifted and talented/accelerated ES programs for the most able kids of all races.   Without such ES programs, test-in MS programs will not become politically viable.

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