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You are trolling, and you know it.

MCPS is increasing geographic diversity in magnets by stating that children in several middle schools, largely W feeders, already have a peer group in their districted areas and don't need magnet education.  The impetus for seeking geographis diversity was an attempt to indirectly increase racial diversity at the magnet schools.

The problem with MCPS's approach is that it put the cart before the horse.  [b]MCPS stopped accepting top W students now[/b], and is planning to implement partial magnet curriculum in W feeders over time.  Somewhere on DCUM a teacher wrote that they had a 2 day (!!!) training on teaching a magnet class.  The kids in the W feeders who tested well enough to be in the magnets are in a tough spot this year, being the guiney pigs for the curriculum implementation.   It is also likely that "separate but equal" fallacy may result for a less rigorous "minimanget" programs in W feeders.[/quote]

How do you know this?

Also, as I'm sure you know, "separate but equal" was the doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson that justified segregating public facilities (including schools) by race, such that African-American people had to use different schools, drinking fountains, benches, waiting rooms, bathrooms, swimming pools, parts of the train/bus, parts of movie theaters, etc. etc. etc. To apply that to MCPS's admissions process for the middle-school magnet program, which included the assigned home middle school as a factor -- I don't have words for that.[/quote]

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