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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you look at Blair overall, can you really blame U.S. News?  Their numbers (outside of SMAC) stink.  The Magnet was supposed to "raise up" Blair for Silver Spring, but instead it's just a bad HS overall with an ineffective Magnet.  A lot of parents in "W's" are just keeping their kids at their home school and tutoring on the side, so now AEI has egg all over their face for screwing up again.  MCPS can try bussing for equity, but we'll see how that works out at the next board election.[/quote]

The injecting of OOB kids has done exactly what it was always intended to do, raise test scores and public perception to suppress middle class flight. Without the magnets TP and Blair might not have made it out of the doldrums of the 90s to be positioned to be the inside the beltway preference for the families who could only afford Silver Spring in the DCC during DCs revitalization. Even with the influx of upper middle class families and the bused in magnet kids, the fact that it’s test score and rankings are as low as they are shows how close the majority of the school is to being an Einstein or Kennedy equivalent. It’s success can almost solely be attributed to the magnet being put there.[/quote]

Not really. Yes, when you look at test averages by demographic there is little impact on any demographic score other than Asian since the magnet has maybe 100 non-Asian kids in a school of 3000. [/quote]

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