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[quote=Anonymous][quote]My own children aren't even of school age yet, but I ask this in all seriousness. In the DC burbs, academic magnet programs serve to keep upper-middle-class parents from voting with their feet in droves after elementary - what's so horrible about that? Surely poor kids benefit from keeping the affluent engaged in K-12 public education in large numbers. I interview seniors in DCPS and charters applying to my Ivy alma mater as an alum volunteer every fall. They don't fare at all well as a group, and not for lack of brains or industry. [b]While Stuyveswant will get 30-40 into any particular Ivy every year, Wilson, SWW, Banneker, and now Latin, are lucky to get a handful. [/b]Ivies work well for the poor because they're practically a free college education as much as anything else. [/quote] NYC has a population roughly 11 times that of DC. Of course their magnet schools perform at a higher level--they're drawing from a huge applicant pool. [/quote]
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