Faustus said:Urban Ag said:
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.
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.
You have made a lot of posts that demonstrate you don't get the complaint but at least you used the "too cool for school" emoji so that's good. They aren't closing them over concerns or complaints about the cost of specialized schools built around narrow competencies like perform arts or foreign languages. They're closing them because the left sees everything through the prism of race and since certain racial groups are underrepresented in these specialty schools those schools must be closed. You keep making comments about paying for magnet schools while the thread is about liberal racism holding back high performing kids because they're white and Asian.
The federal government was never meant to be this powerful.