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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I perosnally don't get the logic of reserving seats for home school. It puts kids from other schools at disadvantage. No one should have reserved seats. [/quote]

My understanding is that traditionally magnets have had some slots reserved for local kids to avoid dynamics where a very selective academic magnet is placed at a low SES school where few or no local kids would score high enough to make it in if they were in the general eligibility pool.

I can see some value in that-- there are definitely issues with having a school which has one set of classes for the local low-SES kids and a whole higher tier available for magnet kids which the local kids rarely or never get to access. But I feel like MCPS central office is performing, like, a cargo cult version of that by parroting "Local set-asides are more equitable and important for helping programs feel like part of the school community rather than a school-within-a-school" without stopping to think about whether giving disproportionate seats in a desirable magnet to kids from a rich school is actually really equitable.

If they really want to do local set-asides, they should just calculate the number of seats the local school should get proportional to the total number of kids in the region, and make that the set-aside.  If you want to actively make sure the local kids get their "fair share" of seats, fine.  But they should not get any extra.[/quote]

This the magnets were original designed to get West county kids to self bus to the schools that needed the bump. Predictable up roar when they were completely filled with Bethesda and Chevy Chase kids which then gave them the inside lane to the HS magnets making the local communities notice what they were missing out on. The problem needed the anchored slots to ensure they could get in. The magnets used to be complete transparent with who they carted to, to get the Bethesda kids to opt in to Blair they had to put them in a different building with a different lunch period and even a different class bell so the kids didn't even mix in the hall ways. Their are kids who graduated from blair back in the day who never actually met a magnet kid. They address much of that but don't ever forget why the programs are where they are and it isn't because of local student need. It is a obfuscating of test and demographic results of the school to make it look better on paper[/quote]

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