How selective is the young scholars program?

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Anonymous wrote:They have Young Scholars at middle schools?

http://www.fcps.edu/is/aap/ys.shtml

Young Scholars is a K-8 initiative that is designed to increase the proportion of historically underrepresented students in gifted programs.

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Anonymous wrote:At my DC's school, all the young scholars are primarily Hispanic and low income. They identify children that appear to have budding critical thinking skills, but don't have the home support to encourage that level of thinking.

OP here. Does that mean that they won't pick any white or Asian kids for the young scholars program? Or just a few Asian or white kids will get picked?

Since only Hispanics and black kids will receive this special benefit, maybe you could tell the school it would be a racial discrimination to not include your child? Public school programs should be open to all willing participants without regard to race, gender etc.

OP here. This is bothering me greatly that there will be racial discrimination against my child. I originally asked this question expecting parents to say that the child needed to test at 95th percentile on a test, show critical thinking skills in the top 20% of a class or a teacher picks X number of children based on X categories.

It's not racial discrimination. It sounds like affirmative action, which is perfectly appropriate, per the Supreme Court.