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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It worked very well when we kept the CESs, but added ELC and made parents feel like their kids were getting the CES experience at their home schools. Why don’t we add a few extra cohorted math and science classes to each region, tell parents that’s the magnet experience, but still keep the existing STEM magnets so the truly gifted kids can still take these tiny, super specialized advanced classes? Everyone will be happy.[/quote]

Because after not very many years, they got rid of ELC. It was seen as expendable, whereas for some reason the magnet was not. And based on your post, you seem to think it’s a farce that the two could be approximate, or that kids who were in the one and not the other aren’t as smart. Even though qualification for the magnet pool was criteria-based, and then an actual spot in the magnet was lottery-based. So all of the kids in ELC were equally qualified. I think the lottery is unfair and the programs should all be equal, so I’m in favor of local school programs at the elementary level, and regional magnets at the high school level, not “real” magnets and “fake” magnets like you propose. [/quote]

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