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[b]Why dod we need a county wide magnet if we have regional magnets.  [/b]If the regional model offered what kids needed who would be choosing to go further away from home just to attend a county wide magnet.  Yes you moved here because of what you heard about one magnet.  That doesn't mean it's going to stay like that forever into eternity.  [/quote]

Let's say you have a great glass of orange juice from the oranges you grow. It's so good that you sell it at your local farmer's market. But only some people near the farmer's market can get your orange juice. It's not a question of who deserves the juice the most: it's who has the opportunity. Later, you implement a system trying to make sure that only the superfans of the juice get it, so the deserving get it. However, people (who don't superfan the juice as much) complain. If you try to bring everyone who wants the juice, no matter how close they live or how much they deserve it, you have to either plant more orange trees, at great expense to yourself, or dilute the juice with water and hope that the people who care are quickly silenced because you're too powerful. Which do you think you will do?

Now: the juice is the magnet programs, "deserving/wanting" the juice more means showing more need by not having enough challenge at your home school, and you are MCPS. 
It's not that countywide programs are bad; rather, MCPS' implementation is bad.[/quote]

This is a crazy analogy, because Superfan does not = more deserving, it equals those who had the opportunity to try it and thus became a Superfan.  As for which do you think you will do? Well since I understand business, I would put together a plan to scale the business, which Yes does require investment so that by base is larger and thus I'm able to sell more product and reach more people.

As for countywide programs, no one has said they are bad.  What they said is that they don't service enough capable kids, and that some capable kids choose not to apply or attend because they are too far away.  People including CO have also noted that some programs in the county may no longer have the same level of interest as other programs and there may be interest in newer programming that doesn't yet exist, because you know time change.  As a district the are responsible for using resources wisely to address the greatest amount of needs. So we're not saying that extra high acheiving students should be ignored, we're saying they may not continue to be serviced in the same way moving forward.  [/quote]

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