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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1990: Let’s put the magnet over here because these schools are underenrolled and none of the wealthy people want their kids to go here 
2022: All the wealthy people: “it’s not fair the magnet is all the way over there.”

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Wealthy?  Please.  Heaven knows the apartment complexes in Rockville, Germantown, Grosvenor; or just Gaithersburg, Montgomery Village just scream out "wealth" to me.

We all know the down county magnet only catered only to the TPES home school area and no one else.  Same went for Poolesville.  No one in the center, northwest or southeast of the county can access either one easily.  A child can easily spend an hour or hour and a half one way.

Want to claim "oh, just move"?  I'd much rather change the voting rules so that district reps are only voted on by their own district voters to represent the interests of all children in Montgomery County.  This is the board "elected" primarily by Silver Spring voters.  That needs to change.[/quote]

This comment illustrates so much that is wrong with the discourse on this board, and the way that people speak with "authority" on topics that they don't fully understand.

OP asked about the downcounty middle school magnets, which pull from a specific subset of HS clusters. So of course PP talks about a defunct ES program that only ever served 20 or so kids, and a HS program that isn't even part of the downcounty area. [/quote]

If there is something that you "fully understand" then why not explain it with factual references and not just be condescending?

[b]If it's defunct, then why doesn't the magnet program move from TPMS and Blair?[/b]  I understand why MCPS wants to forget anything before 2020 and blame everything on covid, but it doesn't answer the question.  I still think Woodward is a better downcounty location than Blair.  If you think Blair is easy access, you must live in Silver Spring?  At least the kids of parents working in VA would be able to access the program that way.  Public education means equal access for all the children - not just personal favorites.[/quote]

NP, but you are dense. The TPMS and Blair magnets had nothing to do with TPES's little program. One was not based on the other.[/quote]

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