Thursday, May 20, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
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I am an 11-year-old student trying to get into Hyde Park Middle School, which is a magnet school, and I read the Las Vegas Sun’s Monday article by Emily Richmond, “Magnet schools: How can success be replicated best?”
She wrote that for middle and high school magnet schools, students must meet certain academic requirements and then their names are placed into a lottery to see if they’re accepted.
The story stated that at the middle school level, “4,502 students competed for 1,486 seats at six campuses.” I understand that there is a large number of students applying, but then the story states, “The numbers suggest a stiff degree of competition.”
I don’t find a lottery-based system to get into a school very competitive. Gaining entry into a magnet school seems to be more luck than competition.
I think if I had a chance to compete to get into a magnet school, by a test of some form, I would have a better chance of getting accepted.
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