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[quote=Anonymous]I was PTA President the first year of the TPMS magnet. The magnet was put at Takoma because it was the "blackest" of the junior highs/middle schools.The idea was to attract white kids from up county to come voluntarily rather than having forced busing for desegregation. How things have changed. Takoma Park is now a very high income school. Most of the black middle class has disappeared. And the kids being bused are largely Asian. There is really no rational for the magnets now. I believe they ought to be phased out and elements of the magnet programs should be offered at every middle school. There are certainly many kids who would benefit from the curriculum. But this won't happen because parents of high achieving kids are very vocal. Ironically my high achieving AA grandsons have chosen to go to private schools because there are so few black boys in the magnets that they had no peer group.[/quote]
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