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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Low income students can't travel far. They have jobs and sibling care responsibilities. So if you put magnets in the high income schools, you basically siphon off highest resourced high performing students from the low income schools. The kids that are left have a very small cohort and the school can no longer sustain advanced coursework. It is truly better not to have a magnet at all
High income students already have advanced classes at their home schools.

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This. No more all county magnets. Focus resources on all the home schools so all kids have access to challenging course. And be ok that sometimes it's 10 kids in a hard class in some schools. [/quote]

This I would be okay with. I wish they would just build up all of the county high schools. But the DCC parents seem very against this with the theory that their children haven't had equal access to classes even though they have the magnets and consortium. It's not magically better in the low FARMS school. They have classes with 35-40 students too. They don't deserve to get ignored or looked down upon just because they are in a different area of the county.[/quote]

You don't understand. DCC students HAVE to travel further to access the SAME classes that Whitman and BCC students have at their home school. The fear is they won't have access at all without the flexibility of the DCC. Classes in DCC schools are not smaller.

Demanding equity is not "looking down" on you. You are making this about you when your child gets more resources and opportunities than ours. I do judge you because you sound very self involved.[/quote]

And yet from my viewpoint, you are making this all about your child and not considering everyone in the county. I am not sayiing that every program needs to be at a low FARMS school, just that there should be a fair distribution.

I wish my child had access to child development classes because she would love that, but it is not offered at our school. I will welcome the opportunity to have niche programs that other students in the county can access. They don't need to be academic ones to draw students.[/quote]

Then, your child goes to MC to take child development classes or cosa's.  Problem solved.  Many of the W schools have child development classes.[/quote]

Exactly this! If a specialized class or program is not offered at your school, you can go to MC or get a COSA. Problem solved- no need for any of these specialized programs.[/quote]

A visa is very hard to get.  We don’t have transportation for MC.  [/quote]

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