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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just personally think that it shows low moral character. There is a family that I generally like and I know that they do this and this definitely causes me to think less of them.

My child would be so upset about this she is honest as can be. I can imagine her walking into school on the first day and just blurting out I’m supposed to say that I live at 21 Main St. but I actually live at 34 Cherry St.!!![/quote]

No it shows you care about your kids education and it's not your fault you cant afford a $2M house in the zone you're trying to send your kid. Maybe if school districts made all the schools high quality instead of only the ones that serve the wealthier enclaves parents wouldn't be reduced to having the low moral character of trying to get high quality education for their children. [/quote]

Yes, exactly, schools are "low quality" because school districts don't do enough, not because we tie school funding to property taxes and penalize schools for not being able to pass standardized tests that are really just a measure of SES as a means of keeping them hypersegregated and underfunded.  :roll: [/quote]

In Moco the funding is the same. The issue is concentrated poverty. Thee best way to alleviate concentrated poverty would be busing but rich parents basically bring out the pitchfoiand torches whenever that is suggested.[/quote]

The magnets were created to bring strong programming to schools with minority populations so there would be enough students taking those classes to make them available to all.  This works mostly by bringing the kids from wealthier areas to the less-wealthy schools because kids from less-affluent families have childcare and other obligations at home. Bussing would be more of a burden on them, so the burden is put on the students from more affluent areas.

Now, there's this big move to get rid of magnets. What do you think that will do to the schools with concentrated poverty? It will make it harder for able students at those schools to get access to advanced classes.

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Yes, back in 1990 Blair was only like 90% white so they added a magnet to stem white flight. The world has changed much these past 30 years.[/quote]

Blair was around 60% minority when the magnet started. The county was only about 75% white.  Yes, the school once was nearly entirely white, probably in the 60's or 70's. The goal was to try to bring it closer to the county demographic. Maybe it wasn't perfect, but it wasn't started to stem white flight -- that ship had sailed by then.

https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/03/education/in-a-minority-district-in-maryland-a-magnet-school-that-reall-draws.html

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