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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the content of magnet and race, I did some research on the Blair SMAC program. It was solely placed at Blair because they wanted to attract more White and Asian students to the school, do not know what the issue is with knowing this. If you want to paint MCPS as nice equity district, we are solely wrong, the only thing that they place with equity in the system is the lottery for CES and middle school Magnet and resident had major issue with that. [/quote]

It was to combat the white flight that was happening in DC at the time. It was a reverse bussing program to create a bump in the schools appearance so local famlies didn't think their school was the worst in the county which it was at the time. So it worked in that reguard. Funny part was to placate the west county parents at the time the Magnet kids had their own schedule, areas, bells and lunch period.  One could attend Blair for 4 years and never meet a magnet kid really until they moved into the new building and started walking some of that back. Will be interesting to see what happens to Blair when it loses it. Those few hundred test takes make a huge difference in their test scores and college acceptances.  [/quote]

wait wait wait, what?  The magnet kids were completely physically segregated from gen pop?  When did that end?[/quote]
That poster is talking BS. Not the first time. [/quote]

The internet says that poster is correct.
E.g. “ When we moved to new Blair Magnet students asked the architect to design the building so that the magnet was no longer isolated in a section of the building.”
https://www.mbhsmagnet.org/news/fall09/with-changing-forces-the-magnet-evolves[/quote]
I was there. In the old Blair, they added the D and E hall to house the computer labs, advanced science labs, advanced math classes etc...of course those classes were mostly taken by  magnet students but those halls were always almost empty, except for going to/ coming from class or labs.  Magnet students did not migrate or linger in those halls. [/quote]

and nowadays do kids not in the magnet take the magnet classes?  I would assume that most of the classes are either 1) full of magnet kids, or 2) really too advanced (for the upper level courses).  I just am at a loss how the magnets generally benefit the school, aside from on a tiny margin.[/quote]
Kids not in the magnet could and took magnet classes if they have the pre-requisites. I knew a few of them personally. [/quote]

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