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One option would be to create more magnet-type schools.  Like an east, central, and west TJHSST in different parts of the county so parents across the county, no matter what pyramid they are zoned for, have an opportunity to send academically gifted kids to a school with curriculum / classs that are geared for those gifted student populations.[/quote]

And leave smart kids who just miss the cutoff to rot in schools that now have a much larger percentage of distractions?

I think we need the opposite - create some schools for the known problem kids - bullies, kids caught with drugs, behavioral problems, etc. - and concentrate them there so they don't distract from the learning of others.  Then we can maximize the potential of all the kids that actually have potential.[/quote]

And, most likely, none of those things - either more magnets or new "reform schools" - will come to pass.  More magnets would create the problem you identify, and they would tie themselves into knots immediately about the demographics of students sent to the reform schools.

The only thing I could possibly see working is the School Board giving the staff to come back with recommendations with respect to schools county-wide that are [b]truly[/b] in a crisis situation with respect to either overcrowding or under-enrollment, and then voting on those recommendations as a package.  But the hurdle ought to be set very, very high - schools so overcrowded that they present an imminent safety threat or so under-enrolled that they can no longer offer core academic courses comparable to those available at other schools.  And then the instruction should be to do whatever causes the least disruption to address those situations, which should be quite rare.  There should be no wriggle room to just move kids around because someone doesn't like a school's demographics or because someone is going to be embarassed if they don't fill seats at a school that may have received an unnecessary expansion.  [/quote]

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