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That is because TPMS drew its boundaries to avoid the poorest parts of Takoma Park. Completely accidental I am sure, or maybe another example of hypocrisy

TPMS has a 30 percent FARMS rate, which is not nothing. The point is that PP said the CES and magnet programs were "proof" that economic integration doesn't help poor kids. My argument was that the CES programs wouldn't be expected to "help" kids outside the program, because it isn't integration. It's a school within a school. At the middle school level, TPMS is a perfectly fine school with or without the high SES kids bussed in for the magnet program. These are both terrible examples of "why economic integration doesn't work," which is the point PP was apparently trying to make.

DP - Do you have any data to support the assertion that TPMS is a perfectly fine school with or without the magnet program?

One could make a case that it was the magnet program that made TPMS a "perfectly fine school". You might want to read the metis report that provides the history behind these programs: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/...dyReport-Version2-20160307.pdf. As per the report, TPMS magnet is one of the programs that were developed to prevent white flight and maintain racial diversity. It seems the program (with the 25 seat quota in the magnet program reserved for local students) has done the job very well.

For the poster who made the point about the boundaries of TPMS, are you sure you don't have the cause and effect reversed? Is it possible the strategy MCPS used 50 years ago did not work with Eastern (no home school quota in the magnet program) but worked with TPMS? [/quote]

Low income kids do not do any better for TPMS so from this perspective the magnet program is a failure. Did it attract wealthy white and asian kids from the west and prop up the school's scores? Yes. Did it help to attract some not as wealthy but still wealthy whites to move into the area and hope to get one of the easier to get in set aside spots? Sure. Did any of this actually raise the performance of the low income AA and hispanic students? No it did not.

Its optics only. School admins like it because it covers up the failures for the low income kids. [/quote]

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