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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Damon is smart, thoughtful, cares deeply about how kids do in school holistically, not just academically...and he has a very high regard for himself.

I think he's a talented school administrator and also think he's really conceited and this gets in the way of progress sometimes - he can be "my way or the highway."

But I think his experience at RM and at CO will serve him well as principal at Blair and it's a placement that makes a lot of sense to me.[/quote]

What makes sense to you won't make sense to the Blair Magnet parents. [/quote]

Right, because the entitled helicopter magnet parents don't have the self-awareness to understand why his experience dealing with entitled helicopter IB parents would be helpful.

He has experience running a school that has a school within the school magnet program. That has impacts on student morale, creates a caste system with both students and teachers, and the parents of the non-zoned students feel entitled to take over the school's culture. It can create a lot of conflict and not every principal is capable of dealing with it.

He handled that fairly well at RM so he will be better poised to deal with it at Blair than other potential candidates.

Though if the program analysis takes away the countywide magnets that might not be as much of an issue anymore.[/quote]

So your position is that the Blair Magnet parents are all "entitled helicopter parents,"  and that the magnet program creates a caste system.   I doubt those "entitled" parents see the magnet program as you do, but reality will reveal itself soon enough.

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LOL I am a middle school magnet parent and a product of the Takoma Park/Blair magnet.

It is a caste system and a school within a school. And other magnet parents may not see it that way but it is very clear to me.[/quote]

Right. You can benefit from the caste system and still acknowledge that's what it is.

"School within school" models are ways of maintaining more well-resourced families in a school environment they might otherwise flee. The reason for this is to improve the overall academic profile of the school.

To lure those well-resourced families into those environments, principals and system leaders have learned they need to be hyper responsive to demands and asks from those parents or else....[/quote]

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