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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What is the purpose of a magnet school?[/quote]

The purpose of a [b]magnet[/b] school is to [b]attract[/b] white students to schools full of black students, in order to [i]desegregate[/i] the school district, [i]increase political power for gaining resources for that school[/i] and to [i]game the "schoolwide" performance metrics[/i] to show "equity".

A "[b]gifted program[/b]" is no the same as a "[b]magnet school[/b]"[/quote]

But, [b]if you know the history of MoCo, you know that gifted programs were purposefully placed in low performing high minority low socioeconomic[/b] class schools in the hopes that they would act like desegregation magnets - pulling academically strong kids into these lower performing schools. MoCo hadn’t desegregated yet, and they were trying to avoid the forced busing Boston experienced and the white flight Prince William county experienced ( where they just closed the public school system).
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That's your bigoted history, not MCPS history. [/quote]

You are delusional and clearly allergic to facts.[/quote]

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