You knew it was happening...

but this time it's rather blatant.

There are plenty of places that try to encourage needy kids to go elsewhere...whether it's kids who need special education services of one kind or another, kids who are poor, kids who are English language learners...dealing with any of that costs time and money, and there are districts that work--hard--at getting rid of those kids.

This is the first time I've seen it be quite so blatant, though. Wake County in North Carolina is reshuffling its schools in hopes of getting more affluent kids into a magnet program. To do that, though, they have to bump the kids that are already there.