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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  One child in magnet, one in local "W" feeder school.  If the magnet were watered down, as it inevitably will have to be if decision-makers put demographics ahead of ability, then we would decide that the magnet is no longer worth the commute.  Our child would return to our home school.  I have no doubt that many if not most people from high-performing clusters will make similar decisions.  Then you are left with more segregation than you had before.  Remember that magnets were originally designed to voluntarily integrate schools.  At TPMS, for example, magnet kids are integrated into the school for all classes except the three magnets.  Take away a true magnet, and you take away the voluntary desegregation and are right back where MCPS started.  [/quote]
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Now I have a sincere question for people who work for MCPS: do you, in real life, get told face-to-face by affluent parents that you should be grateful that they deign to send their children to your schools? Or is this something that (I hope) only happens anonymously on DCUM?[/quote][/b]

This comment doesn't make sense.  Isn't it a historical fact that MCPS designed the magnest mainly if not entirely for desegregation purposes?  (Serious question.)  So isn't it reasonable for PP to assume that MCPS wouldn't want segregation to take place again?  And isn't reasonable to assume that parents doing a cost-benefit analysis won't choose magnet programs if they change the program and if they have an academically-minded, closer, school alternative, so more segregation will happen?  Am I missing something?  (Again, serious question.)

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