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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]here are many other top students from other school zones who do not get in the program.

Leaving 25 seats for the in-boundary kids - if true - is itself suggesting the in-boundary kids are weaker (and need the favor).

If they compete fairly with other kids, it is unlikely in-boundary kids would get 25 seats in the program each year.

Maybe, suppose only 10 do, that drops the size of the magnet available to your kid to 90. You like those odds better? The 25 inbound seats don't impact out-of-bounds students and take pressure off the competition for the 100 seats. It's a win-win, unless you go all dog in the manger.

I am not arguing for or against what should be done. I am simply addressing the "less than" part in the PP.

Well we just don't know that. It could be that twenty-five inbound kids would make the magnet without the set aside. Regardless, it's reasonable that there be some benefit to the community that hosts the magnet, and the town has done a good job protecting that. The creation of the accelerated courses at the home middle schools is sort of an extension of this concept--something for the cohort that didn't make the magnet cut, TP doesn't provide these classes last I heard. I don't live inbounds, but I just don't see the issue with this program. I also know families who bought inbounds, but I'll be curious to see if that works, because I'm sure there are many more I don't know, and the competition is strong. [/quote]

If you are so confident that those 25 seats would go in bounds kids if they were opened up to the entire DCC then why not advocate to open them up? You know that they won't so you will passionately fight to keep them. Plus , your "community" is not hosting the magnet. Its is a MCPS program in the MCPS school system not a TP neighborhood resource. Your community can fight all the parking and development battles but you shouldn't get any special neighborhood consideration for school admissions.

The DCC is supposed to be a unified community but you are hoarding these seats for yourself. You don't deserve easier access just because you live in bounds to TPMS rather than one of the other DCC middle schools. [/quote]

I'm the immediate PP, I live in the DCC, I don't live TP.  I'm not confident of anything, but you can't be either, there's no automatic less-than, that's what I was saying.  Expanding the seats to the DCC would be expanding the magnet, there's no getting around that.  The set aside works because they are students already taking up seats at TP.  There are plenty of reasons to expand the magnets, but that's not really relevant to the set aside.[/quote]

You are exactly right. The problem will only be addressed when the county expands the magnets to accommodate the many qualified students for which there currently isn't room.  [/quote]

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