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OnyxCougar · 03-29-2005, 10:55 AM

One of my ex's went to a Magnet school in Vegas, which specialized in computers and IT. Basically, you applied to the program as an 8th grader, and if you were one of the 250 selectees, you were bussed to the school.

Any intramural sports were done at the "home school", which is the crappy school you would have gone to had you not been fortunate or smart enough to get into Magnet.

Magnet schools are better funded (many times with lots of private donations from parents) and provide above average education in the city they are in. In lots of cases, it's like a whole school of nothing but GATE kids.

03-29-2005, 10:55 AM	#22
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	One of my ex's went to a Magnet school in Vegas, which specialized in computers and IT. Basically, you applied to the program as an 8th grader, and if you were one of the 250 selectees, you were bussed to the school. Any intramural sports were done at the "home school", which is the crappy school you would have gone to had you not been fortunate or smart enough to get into Magnet. Magnet schools are better funded (many times with lots of private donations from parents) and provide above average education in the city they are in. In lots of cases, it's like a whole school of nothing but GATE kids. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt