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Right, but it seems as though one side effect of this new evaluation system is that more lower income, URM kids will end up in the magnet program. Not a bad thing, IMO, but [b]it does likely leave a bunch of smart kids underserved at their home schools.[/b] Really, the best answer seems to be to expand tracking in classes, so even if a kid doesn't make the cut for the magnet program, he/she will still be able to have accelerated/enriched instruction for most, if not all, of ES and MS. [/quote]

Under the previous system, there were also evidently a bunch of smart kids underserved at their home schools -- it's just that those home schools weren't in Bethesda or Potomac.[/quote]

Sure, and that makes it more likely the underserved kids will get what they need. After all, money talks, and the rich Bethesda and Potomac parents aren't going to just sit around while their investment in their $1 million+ home doesn't come with the ROI, education-wise, they were bargaining for. [/quote]

You're making some assumptions about Bethesda and Potomac parents. The vast majority of Cold Spring parents are not rich, far from it. They are dual income, ESL families who stretched and sacrificed to buy small homes in the "best" school district they could. They are not the stereotype you think, and are pretty devastated about the being discriminated against with the new admissions policy. Unless you feel 54/56 Cold Spring magnet students truly did not deserve to go on to MS magnets.[/quote]

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