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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No..not at all.  I am just pointing out that the initial goal and the new goal are different.  Nowhere does my post attempt to predict how the new goals will affect the scores or the program.  It is sad that you have jumped to this conclusion.[/quote]

But to raise a different point, the initial goal was a failure from the start.  There's a 1994 study, [url]http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED374202.pdf[/url], referenced in the Choice Study that reached this conclusion even twenty years ago.  Comparing the demographics quoted in that study to the numbers today, it's pretty clear things haven't improved.  From the conclusion of the earlier report:

[quote]The magnet school program and other self-regulated policies designed to foster racial integration are unreliable and ineffective means for achieving desegregated schools.  The policies and programs as they are presently designed and administered in MCPS simply have not been strong or effective enough to offset the demographic change that contributes to school segregation and concentrations of poverty in the public schools.[/quote]

Anyway, it is evidence of MCPS doing nothing in the face of criticism, so the folks reading doom into Recommendation 3A probably have little to worry about.  But anyone who wants to support the magnets should just drop these claims of demographics and just argue on the merits of the actual programs.[/quote]

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