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Anonymous wrote:The C-SPAN Student Cam contest results came out a few days ago, and MCPS did very well. The Humanities/Communications magnets (EMS, MLKMS, CAP) led the group, but other MCPS high schools had winners as well.
The grand prize winner is a team from MLK MS.
https://www.studentcam.org/winners23.htm
Congrats to all of the kids, and to MCPS for cultivating a group of kids with the skills to take on a big task like this one.
As usual and once again MCPS crushed the competitions, but we all know DCUM is not happy about it.
Wow! These Asian-American kids from MCPS are just too good. They keep excelling regardless of how dumb MCPS curriculum and policies become. Of course, their success does not take away how dismally MCPS is doing overall.
Congratulations to the parents of these children for investing their time, money and effort on their kids education, and raising the kind of citizens this country needs.
(So, will MCPS central office create roadblocks in their path down the road? I mean they do screw Asian-American kids comes time for magnet admissions but bask in the glory they get due to their hardwork, brainpower and the support of their parents and community! Must be a real bitter pill to swallow!)
They “screw Asian American kids in magnet admissions”?!!! Asian American kids are the vast majority of admitted students - way out of proportion with their proportion of the population. They are extremely privileged. If you want to work out who is “screwed in magnet admissions” I suggest you look at black kids and Latino kids. Look at Blair magnet- seems to be about 65 percent Asian, 20 percent white, 10 percent black and 5 everyone else including Latino. How are Asian American kids “screwed” in the race blind process that vastly favors them over other students of different races? Just stop with this BS.
I'm always mystified by these claims too. They just don't align with the reality given the magnet makeup and especially since the selection is race-blind.
No need to be mystified. Asian-Americans are highest achieving in all academic and scholastic metrics. If MCPS was NBA, all the players would be Asian Americans.
In MCPS a lot of Asian Americans with higher credentials are rejected to take in less than stellar URMs. Why? Because it indeed is a travesty to leave behind any URM who legitimately is a B-student. But, an Asian-American A student? Pffftt..
A brain is a terrible thing to waste - unless it is an Asian-American brain because then they are over-represented.
A man should be known for the content of his character and not the color of his skin - unless he is an Asian-American because then the content of character of parents becomes the child's privilege.
Instead of expanding the magnet program - MCPS diluted it and there is gate-keeping to keep Asian-Americans out. They call it lottery. But are the children ok? Nope. The racial group that should have been helped is even more behind.
In spite of the hurdles put in their path Asian-Americans are still doing very well.