"…aren't getting a fair shake in the testing…."

Let's make a deal, those "underrepresented" groups can get a 50% curve, but in exchange the white & asian kids get to run a 30 yard dash at the combine. Cool?

Going to follow the Baltimore model.

They won't be done until everyone is below grade level

Schools, not programs. Every one of those kids will still be able to take AP/AC classes and go to elite colleges.

I'm kind of ambivalent about public magnet schools of their varying stripes. Meh.

And chuckle at magnet elementary schools dedicated to advanced learners. 3 of them no less.

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Schools, not programs. Everyone of those kids will still be able to take AP/AC classes and go to elite colleges.

I'm kind of ambivalent about public magnet schools of their varying stripes. Meh.

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It still kinda sucks that they will have to dodge the savages between classes.

Their kids will have to survive mixing with the folks living in their neighborhoods or pay for private elementary school like the rest of us.

Oh my kids will never step foot in a public school, believe that.

My kids are at Strake, but I have no complaints about my public school education in Round Rock.

Still not acknowledging that 1/3 of this travesty is closing magnet elementary schools.

A&M Consol back in the day was fine for me too, but inner city poor kids with aptitude today are just boned with attending public school hellscapes.

Hard to believe anyone would support this but yet here we have a res-lib in lockstep.

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Schools, not programs. Everyone of those kids will still be able to take AP/AC classes and go to elite colleges.

I'm kind of ambivalent about public magnet schools of their varying stripes. Meh.

And chuckle at magnet elementary schools dedicated to advanced learners. 3 of them no less.

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Sorry you were in the normal kid group in elementary school that wasn't bored af if they didn't get moved to an advanced class.

Leftist "equality" always means dragging the people at the top down, never lifting the bottom up.

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Faustus said:

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Schools, not programs. Everyone of those kids will still be able to take AP/AC classes and go to elite colleges.

I'm kind of ambivalent about public magnet schools of their varying stripes. Meh.

And chuckle at magnet elementary schools dedicated to advanced learners. 3 of them no less.

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Sorry you were in the normal kid group in elementary school that wasn't bored af if they didn't get moved to an advanced class.

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I was in TAG in elementary. Chuckle at the acronym.

Managed to get a scholarship to Rice. More than one if you count the pittance Rice gave us for being national merit scholars.

Much obliged for the post.

Democrats must keep the population stupid and anyone identified as smart must be dumbed down for it makes it easier for them to be controlled.

They already have blacks on their plantation and are being successful in the white category.

Again nothing keeps these kids from being in advanced classes at their schools. Is there some right to magnet elementary schools? Did they take standardized tests when they were 4 that necessitated a special school?

If Seattle thought that was necessary, then whatever. Now that it doesn't, again whatever.

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Ag with kids said:

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Faustus said:

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Schools, not programs. Everyone of those kids will still be able to take AP/AC classes and go to elite colleges.

I'm kind of ambivalent about public magnet schools of their varying stripes. Meh.

And chuckle at magnet elementary schools dedicated to advanced learners. 3 of them no less.

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Sorry you were in the normal kid group in elementary school that wasn't bored af if they didn't get moved to an advanced class.

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I was in TAG in elementary. Chuckle at the acronym.

Managed to get a scholarship to Rice. More than one if you count the pittance Rice gave us for being national merit scholars.

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TAG = The Annoying Guy?

My amusing story is that I managed to get a scholarship offer from tu. Unsolicited, too.

Damn...tu would have accepted ANYONE back then.

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Again nothing keeps these kids from being in advanced classes at their schools. Is there some right to magnet elementary schools? Did they take standardized tests when they were 4 that necessitated a special school?

If Seattle thought that was necessary, then whatever. Now that it doesn't, again whatever.

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So...they have an ENTIRE school full of advanced kids...

But, they will manage to find enough a) rooms b) resources c) teachers at the regular elementary to accept all of these kids AND put them in advanced classes?

Looking at this from a distance it looks like an op that a foreign adversary would run to do long term damage to their enemy.

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Going to follow the Baltimore model.

They won't be done until everyone is below grade level

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It won't be fair until ALL students who graduate from Seattle public schools are illiterate.

"Many parents are flabbergasted"

Flabbergasted that the people you voted for are doing exactly what they have always done?

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Faustus said:

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Again nothing keeps these kids from being in advanced classes at their schools. Is there some right to magnet elementary schools? Did they take standardized tests when they were 4 that necessitated a special school?

If Seattle thought that was necessary, then whatever. Now that it doesn't, again whatever.

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So...they have an ENTIRE school full of advanced kids...

But, they will manage to find enough a) rooms b) resources c) teachers at the regular elementary to accept all of these kids AND put them in advanced classes?

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All these kids? Seattle ISD has over 50k kids and we're talking about 3 elementary schools (and middle schools and high schools - y'all shouldn't let me get away with focusing on the aspect that makes it look silly), and if you can find a school there that doesn't offer advanced classes via online sleuthing please link.

https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/advanced-learning/

Public schools. Run by ... what's a Christian way to say this?....

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"Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools" Romans 1:18-32

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These people

There is also the punishment aspect of it too. How dare these white and asian kids do well and succeed when minorities can't . The psychotic libs literally see these kids as exhibiting racism/hate behavior because they dare to do well in this racist sh*thole country America .

NM.

For the drive by posters, this is "Equity" in action

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For the drive by posters, this is "Equity" in action

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These people are so psychotic. When they get complete control of healthcare in 20 years, if minorities do worse at a hospital. They will withhold treatment/medicine from white/asian people till the mortality/morbidity rates are equal.

Doctor: "Sorry, I am going to have to let Memaw die because Shauntavius didn't pull through after getting shot robbing the liquor store last night "

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For the drive by posters, this is "Equity" in action

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Amusingly in Houston you have to qualify and then win a lottery for the various types of magnet schools, which I suppose is also equity in action. That includes magnet schools for the arts, which your property taxes are paying for over and above the normal schools. Ok if we close those and have them take specialized classes at normal high schools?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_High_School_for_the_Performing_and_Visual_Arts

Removing rewards for high performance is the socialist way. When everyone is expected to perform poorly so all feel good, here we are

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Faustus said:

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Again nothing keeps these kids from being in advanced classes at their schools. Is there some right to magnet elementary schools? Did they take standardized tests when they were 4 that necessitated a special school?

If Seattle thought that was necessary, then whatever. Now that it doesn't, again whatever.

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you are intentionally missing the point.

the school facilities are already allocated.
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Avoiding the drab stuff rather than missing, and as I pointed out with the artsy magnet schools in Houston, why should the parents of the pedestrian kids foot the bill for a school for the special ones?

google 'common good college admissions'

Enjoy the insanity that has years of growth.

Dancing close to the line there.

Houston also has a magnet high school for criminal law and justice in EaDo, which I assume everyone is fine with paying for.

Edit - this has been a fun rabbit hole.
We have 57 magnet elementary schools in Houston. Not so silly after all I guess.

https://generalacademic.com/top-houston-isd-hisd-magnet-schools-of-2021/

Everybody gets a ribbon and no one gets a trophy… great.

All this really does is force parents that give a sh** about their kids to move them further out from where they work. We thought about this with our oldest son because he was on the bubble for guaranteed acceptance to A&M. If we move out of Gtown to Salado, Florence, Walburg, etc, he's a lock. Ultimately he did get in to A&M and will be there this fall as a fish.

It's just going to push more high earners and good families out of the city of limits of "name your sh**hole dem controlled big city". Which is really a good thing I guess. Take our kids and our money and GTFO.

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All this really does is force parents that give a sh** about their kids to move them further out from where they work. We thought about this with our oldest son because he was on the bubble for guaranteed acceptance to A&M. If we move out of Gtown to Salado, Florence, Walburg, etc, he's a lock. Ultimately he did get in to A&M and will be there this fall as a fish.

It's just going to push more high earners and good families out of the city of limits of "name your sh**hole dem controlled big city". Which is really a good thing I guess. Take our kids and our money and GTFO.

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I get the sentiment, but with the Top 10% rule (6% at UT) it seems like most folks' best bet was already to be in the sticks or the inner city, not with kids equally or more adept.

Moreover parents of the kids you describe already live in wealthy areas with their own school district (Eanes, Highland Park, etc.) or send their kids to private school, which amounts to much the same.

Regardless it's been fun seeing the posts decrying magnet schools closing in Seattle not realizing how many varied ones we foot the bill for - including the Mandarin Immersion Magnet School. I bet you guys didn't know you were paying for that as part of HISD.

Without that school it's all participation ribbons.