Catholic school application process

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I’d say that “being a determining factor” certainly “makes a difference.” 🙂 But apart from the semantical rabbit trail, I can counter-anecdote you with horror stories of underfunded schools in under-privileged neighborhoods. If money isn’t a “determining factor,” what would be the harm in school funding equity?

By the way, money actually is a determining factor. But funding equity should be a non-issue for those who don’t believe it is.
 
Magnet schools are district schools, at least in my area. The one where I’m considering sending my kids offers an ELL program, hosting immigrant and refugee children, and is quite diverse.
 
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Oh, magnet schools.
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A magnet program, not a magnet school, and in the same district. And quite racially diverse. But by all means, keep trying to make the narrative fit your conceptions.
 
blackforest said:
Magnet schools are district schools, at least in my area. The one where I’m considering sending my kids offers an ELL program, hosting immigrant and refugee children, and is quite diverse.
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Yes, that is the definition of a magnet school. It has special programs to draw white students into a minority school so the district looks better on their level of racial segregation in schools.

My question is, if a school district can figure out how to create high-achieving magnet schools, why don’t they apply those same techniques and standards to all their underperforming schools?
 
Don’t know; don’t care. I am not a fan of ranking by standardized test scores. And where there was one HS then, there are at least five now, possibly more, in the county.
 
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Don’t know; don’t care. I am not a fan of ranking by standardized test scores. And where there was one HS then, there are at least five now, possibly more, in the county.
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You care enough to post here and join in the fun on Catholic arguing forum!
 
Jen95 said:
It has special programs to draw white students into a minority school so the district looks better on their level of racial segregation
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Your assumptions are showing. The school she went to was about twice as “white” as the school she would have gone to by attendance map.
 
Jen95 said:
It has special programs to draw white students
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??? What programs “draw [in] white students?” Are white students interested in different programs than ethnic minorities?
Jen95 said:
so the district looks better on their level of racial segregation in schools.
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This sounds rather cynical. It’s not a matter of “looking better” but “doing better.” Or is there something wrong with de-segregating?
Jen95 said:
My question is, if a school district can figure out how to create high-achieving magnet schools, why don’t they apply those same techniques and standards to all their underperforming schools?
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A variety of reasons. It’s really hard to fire dysfunctional teachers and principles, who are often just moved to other schools. Other times, peer groups can become toxic, and it’s a good thing to break them up. Other times, a school is in a neighborhood where a kid is safer. Finally, a lot of families don’t want to wait around for schools to “get better.” To paraphrase one reform activist, if a building is on fire, it’s urgent to get people out.
 
I stand corrected - - there are two types of magnet schools. I believe the more common one is to correct racial quotas - - I am not making this up or assuming anything - - this is federal law:
. Another type of “magnet school” or “magnet program” emerged in the United States in the 1970s[1] as one means of remedying [racial segregation](Racial segregation - Wikipedia) in public schools, and they were written into law in Section 5301 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Authorization.[2] Demographic trends following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education US Supreme Court decision revealed a pattern later characterized as white flight, the hypersegregation of blacks and whites, as the latter moved to the suburbs.[3][4] The first charter school, McCarver Elementary School, opened in Tacoma, Washington in 1968.[5] This second type of magnet can often take the form a of “a school within a school,” meaning that the school may have no competitive admissions for the majority of the school population, and even the magnet program itself may not have fully competitive admissions. This is consistent with the equity based objectives of such programs.
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Ok, if you insist, I will try to when I have time. I will point out that you had offered you would do so:
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Just a minute and I will show you the studies that show that kids from low SES backgrounds that were given a voucher to attend a CAtholic school did slightly worse than staying in their public school.
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Furthermore, you have made a claim and now expect us to do the research to back up your claim. Typically, when this happens in forums, it does not end well for the person who made the initial claim.
 
Jen95 said:
10 or 20 percent passing actually are educating
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They may, or they may not. The pass rate of a standardized test is worthless in determining how well educated the students as a group, or any given individual student, are.
 
Jen95 said:
I guess Christian parents should sacrifice their children’s futures on the altar of public education. That seems like a good idea!
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Are you saying that Christian parents are sacrificing their kid’s future by sending them to public school?
 
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I guess Christian parents should sacrifice their children’s futures on the altar of public education. That seems like a good idea!
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Are you saying that Christian parents are sacrificing their kid’s future by sending them to public school?
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Any parent might be sacrificing a child’s future when they send them to a low-quality public school, yes. That is my opinion. Especially in reference to the fact that @cloistered said that Catholic schools are not as Christian as public schools.
 
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OK, that’s different than what you said up thread. That read as if a parent were to send their child to a public school they’re sacrificing their future.
 
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