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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This surprises me.  Our DD was in a middle school magnet and she had the option to return to her home school (BCC), attend any HS school in the DCC, or apply to any HS program where either BCC or DCC students were eligible.  I’m not sure why the corollary wouldn’t apply to kids that came up via BCC feeders. [/quote].

Supply and demand. The county knows that’s a fake promise. Middle school caliber magnet kids are needed across the DCC so if they are willing to bus them selves,  integration points without cost for the few who will chose that. People forget the magnets charter mission was reverse bussing. Instead of sending poor kids to rich schools they made a carrot to get rich kids to bus to poor schools. It grew from there some what but that mission is still baked in the the strategy.

The county was rapidity segregating by income so that is why the consortiums were created. To give the illusion of choice so no neighborhood became a dead zone completely as long as mom thinks “My kid doesn’t have to go to XYZ”. Notice how not one of the upper SES schools is in one?

There are unintended consequences to feeder rights as DC has found. If you give protected feeder rights to attractive more desirable options the flood can spoil the home: see Hardy middle. The neighborhood that goes there gave up on it decades ago due to NE & SE using it as a pipeline to the good NW HS. Hardy still is around majority OOB kids. [/quote]

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