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In article <Bzvn8D.JB4.1@cs.cmu.edu> roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov (John Roberts) writes:
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>Has anyone had personal experience with magnet schools? I'm curious about 
>whether they provide any benefit.
>
Well, I did not attend a magnet school, but I was part of a gifted/talented
program in grades K-8.

My only complaint was:  Some programs (such as the one I was subjected to)
do not take into account that not all students will be interested in the
same things.

We were taught Spanish, we produced plays, we saw nature films.
A friend of mine and I grew immensely bored with the material presented and
spent our time in the library, reading books like Issac Asimov, etc.  I was
never given a reason to WANT to learn Spanish, or to learn about nature, or
to care about drama.  

I'm sure that magnet schools would fare better in this regard---they are
aimed towards what some students WANT.

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