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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I perosnally don't get the logic of reserving seats for home school. It puts kids from other schools at disadvantage. No one should have reserved seats. [/quote]

My understanding is that traditionally magnets have had some slots reserved for local kids to avoid dynamics where a very selective academic magnet is placed at a low SES school where few or no local kids would score high enough to make it in if they were in the general eligibility pool.

I can see some value in that-- there are definitely issues with having a school which has one set of classes for the local low-SES kids and a whole higher tier available for magnet kids which the local kids rarely or never get to access. But I feel like MCPS central office is performing, like, a cargo cult version of that by parroting "Local set-asides are more equitable and important for helping programs feel like part of the school community rather than a school-within-a-school" without stopping to think about whether giving [b]disproportionate seats in a desirable magnet to kids from a rich school is actually really equitable.[/b]

If they really want to do local set-asides, they should just calculate the number of seats the local school should get proportional to the total number of kids in the region, and make that the set-aside.  If you want to actively make sure the local kids get their "fair share" of seats, fine.  But they should not get any extra.[/quote]

Yes, I think they are embarrassing themselves by using the term equity to describe the regional model they are proposing. It's disgraceful.[/quote]

I loved Fani-Gonzalez calling them out for this at the Council hearing!  Talking about how throwing the word equity into things doesn't actually make it equitable.[/quote]

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