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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's right, I forgot about Greenbelt MS TAG program.

Why lawsuits?   Have there been any lawsuits over the TAG-only schools at elementary school?

There's a state mandate to provide *some* form of TAG services to TAG identified students, but nothing more than that -- no legal requirement of location, type, cohort, etc.   [/quote]

No, but by the county's own research the TAG centers always come back well underrepresented in terms of numbers of minorities compared to the general population. You really think taking a school that's doing well like Kenmoor, closing it off, and busing all the kids, likely less wealthy and more likely to be Hispanic and Afican American compared to the general population, to a school that's struggling and poor performing isn't grounds for a lawsuit?[/quote]

From my personal experience with TAG center schools, there have been very very few white students in any of them, almost always fewer than 5 % of the class or grade ) so I have a hard time beliving that minorities are "well underrepresented" compared to the general population.  Maybe the super TAG centers are an exception.

I also can't see grounds for a lawsuit in shifting programs around.   Parents could protest, but as long as you are moving programs and not targeting individual students (like saying "Let's move all the AA kids here....) I don't think there's much of a case.  School districts have always had the latitude to move programs around to different schools.[/quote]

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