>except that placement in magnet schools and similar programs has been proven to have nothing to do with student intelligence or ability This claim sounds dubi

>except that placement in magnet schools and similar programs has been proven to have nothing to do with student intelligence or ability This claim sounds dubious to me. There absolutely must be examples of this, but it's a stretch to turn it into a generalization for all magnet schools. It may be the case for a "No. 1" school such as TJ, but as someone who attended two magnet schools, the process has always been unsurprisingly fair.