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My question is in what U.S. State is it acceptable to choose children's admissions into Magnet programs by rolling dice?

Why isn't the news picking up on this issue?  These people are completely incompetent as educators and at best this is classic Waste Fraud and Abuse.
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Um, Fairfax County, Virginia? 
New York City
San Francisco
Boston Public

I’m sure there are others - those are just the ones I see in the news regularly.

Some states don’t require any gifted services at all, and many districts don’t offer them. Lots of the elite gifted programs nationwide are looking at ways to diversify their student bodies. [/quote]

Nashville too. Lottery among the qualified candidates. Probably lots of other cities.[/quote]

This is where we are going.

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
French Translation from Avice Robitaille.
Hindi Translation by Ashwin.
Urdu Translation by RealMS
Russian translation
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.

Some things about living still weren't quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron's fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.

It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn't think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn't think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
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