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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Lemme ask you, if your qualified child did not get into a magnet and was heading to a middle school without any of the enriched classes AT ALL because of lack of cohort, how would you feel then? If you knew other equally qualified kids going to the magnet had a powerful cohort and 2 enriched classes at their home middle school, would you think that was fair to your child or the best way to run a limited placement system?[/quote]

The problem is with your term equal. If the white kid in the high performing school scores higher than the white kid in the low performing school, yet the lower scoring white kid gets in then that is not equal. I realize that there is venom among people in the east that W school kids come into their schools for the magnets. I realize that there is intense jealousy that they did not choose to live in a W cluster but that is no reason to create an unequal admission system favoring less academically inclined students in the east because their parents are jealous and crazy.

One of the reasons that the W schools are so strong is that they attract parents who prioritize education and academics. The area is its own "magnet" for smart people. By lowering the standards for white kids in the east to get into the magnets, you are only strengthening the W schools that you hate so much and lowering the quality of the magnet near you. [/quote]

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