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I've read other posters' rebuttals to your post, PP, but I for one completely agree with you.

There is a lot of ignorance surrounding artistic disciplines. Most people don't realize the amount of PRECISE TECHNIQUE a middle schooler needs to learn to achieve an intermediate, or better level. That technique cannot be learned in a lottery based system. There are multiple completely OBJECTIVE CRITERIA for evaluating students' levels of advancement in dance, music and other artistic pursuits, to answer another poster. The existence of these school specialties is purely an attempt to revitalize the surrounding dicey neighborhoods. The schools themselves have no quality core academics, which is really what's most important at the middle school level, and no amount of sauce can hide the bad fish.

[b]I wish MCPS wouldn't deliberately muddy the waters and call these schools "magnets",[/b] as if they were on par with the largely merit-based selective magnets. At best, the lottery-based schools are "Focus" schools, except that term is in use for something else. What about "Specialty" schools?

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But they actually are magnet schools.

I wish posters on DCUM would understand that it's possible to have a magnet school that is not an application magnet school.

And the idea of a public middle-school arts magnet that students have to audition for, with PRECISE TECHNIQUE and OBJECTIVE CRITERIA - [b]well, this isn't Juilliard.[/quote][/b]

That’s kinda the point. Loiderman doesn’t even have the arts education to help our students stand a chance auditioning at Juilliard. Most young performers who take their craft seriously are way above Loiderman standards . It’s not even about it being a magnet it’s the fact that Loidermam is a “arts school” that holds no merit or promise. I saw a dance recital there and some students couldn’t even do a proper pirouette. Why waste arts education money on an arts school student body that aren’t serious about the arts? Do we have it because it looks nice? [/quote]

Maybe it is not MCPSs job to prepare kids for Julliard.  Maybe it is their job to provide a program that makes arts accessible even  to kids that can not do a proper pirouette because arts can important to anyone.  MCPS does not have a program to prep kids to be professional football players either.[/quote]

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