PHILADELPHIA - The deadline is approaching for Philadelphia School District families who want their child to apply to attend a magnet school and a new system has some parents concerned.During Thursday night’s school board meeting, several parents made one last attempt for the board to hear them ahead of the Sunday deadline."Why change the rules for the existing students, how does this lead to equity for all?" says Tanya Folk.
Folk’s son is an eighth grader at Carver Engineering and Science in North Philadelphia.She says the principal, at the time when he enrolled in seventh grade, explained that good grades and behavior could keep their kids there for high school—same building, same teachers.