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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blair[/quote]

Blair take way too much pride in a few hundred kids who are mostly bused in and don't reflect the majority of the school be it demographically, scholastically or geographically. They don't put magnet programs in schools without problems. That is fine, just don't pretend you don't have a problem.

Poolesville was about to close due to lack of kids. Blair has the most kids in the county, I wonder what their problem was? [/quote]

Their "problem"-- in the late 80s when the magnet(s) started-- was that it had very few white kids, thanks to heavy white flight. Montgomery County required that the burden of school integration and bussing not fall unduly on "minorities" so they created programs to draw more white students downcounty.

That's it. That's the whole story.

All of this smarmy "problem" language, for goodness sake. Do you also assume shelter pets are defective?[/quote]

Shelter pets often bring their problems to their new home so yes. And Blair is way less white now than in the 80s. Not that it is a problem but the magnet program was designed to slow the shift. Right wrong or indifferent, the magnet program isn’t there because that is where all the smart kids are.[/quote]

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