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[quote=Anonymous]Oy. DP here. I went to magnets at Eastern and Blair, lived far upcounty, and now live in the Blair cluster with my family.

-The person who keeps talking about how if you "prioritized education" you'd move to Silver Spring is having you on-- you know that, right? Because that's what the W school parents say allllll the time. It's satire.

-OP, yes, you understand! They are "magnets"-- "pulling" upcounty people of an on-average different demographic-- created for the express purpose of integration. IN FACT, Montgomery County, MD is pretty unique in that bylaws stipulate that "the burden of bussing shall not fall disproportionately on minority students" (or something like that-- it's been a while). That was why these programs were created, and Blair, TPES and Eastern (same cluster) were major sites of white flight in the 70s/80s. Hence, the magnets, which became fully operational in the mid-late 80s. They also killed the "G&T" bird with the same stone.

-Unlike NYC and other places where like 20-30% of kids, but the vast majority of white kids, are miraculously "G&T," MCPS in the past targeted that "gifted" group quite narrowly. I fear we are moving ever so slightly in the NYC/Lake Woebegone-for-UMC-kids direction, but we are not there yet. That's why the magnets are not being placed simply at convenient locations or new schools. They still serve the primary purpose of integration. While there are places upcounty that are much less white than they were in the 80s/90s, DTSS/TP still have the highest Black/Latino school-aged population. Maybe nearby Wheaton is close.

-I don't actually know much about the Poolesville program, but at the time I was in HS it was still Poolesville Junior-Senior High (with no magnet). In a sense, the "burden of bussing" would almost have to fall disproportionately on POC because almost by definition, any program that pulls students countywide to a school otherwise as white as Poolesville would drawn more POC to it (also integrating it!) but probably still not more POC of any one demographic than white people. I don't know. But then, that wasn't the subject of this post.

-Although being extremely advanced can be a special need of sorts, arguably/actually requiring accommodation, most of y'all have (extremely bright!) kids that fall below that tier. But some of you think that you're owed the convenience of a specialized, highly-gifted education located precisely at the 270 spur for your future ivy leaguers.

-There is no conspiracy. That's bizarre and ahistorical. The end.[/quote]

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