It sounds like your schools are significantly less discriminatory than ours.
But - you might want to investigate a little deeper. In my area, what they say happens is not what actually happens. I know this for certain, because I have been on both sides of it - I’ve had strings pulled for and against my children. (Not in that order, incidentally).
Do you mean those kids didn’t eat lunch in your cafeteria, didn’t use your gym, didn’t ride your busses? Weren’t socialized together? Because segregation means they’re kept apart.
And that’s what magnet schools do - they take the chosen ones away, to a safer space, away from the untermenschen and deplorables and lesser humans.
And everyone suffers for it. The chosen ones suffer because they are taught to be callous and elitist, and the rest suffer because they don’t have the affluent, influential, educated parents supporting their school. Watching sporting events between a comprehensive school and magnet schools made both these points quite clear to me.
