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Setting aside whether the bar is high enough, you would support removing every proficient student from his/her neighborhood school/cluster and leaving the other school to be filled entirely with kids that score at a basic or below basic level?  [/quote]

This might not be so terrible....

First off, it's silly to say that the T&G students need to be there to raise the bar for the others and make the school "look" better. What's in it for them? Are they to miss out on their potential to be the intellectual eye candy for DCPS?

Second, why not give kids something to aspire to? I went to a magnet school in NYC where there was a huge quotient (approx 40%) of students from poor and economically disadvantaged backgrounds...including myself! These were kids whose potential was stoked in a challenging atmosphere rather than squelched in an enviroment where they were unable to reach their potential. I can only imagine how many smart, poor kids end up in the wrong crowd because their talents go unnoticed, undercultivated and undervalued so "why not just hang out and get high with the "cool" kids...no one really appreciates what I am capable of anyway" No teenager wants to be alone, much less bullied by a tough crowd.

Third, this might allow teachers in the regular schools to concentrate on the students they do have in a less diversified learning environment. The students on the higher end of the spectrum would be able to shine and there will be room for them to advance exponentially without hanging just under the radar. I don't know much about the patterns within public school learning models but it seems entirely logical to me that there might be a domino effect in an upwards direction if we were to introduce magnet schools into the equation .[/quote]

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