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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe I am coming late to the party.

Are you saying that teachers evaluate the students based on classroom performance and report cards and then these students are invited to apply to the magnet program.   Students can decline the invite.  Students who are not invited can still apply to the program. All students who want to be in the program just need to take the admissions test (so no essays, no recommendations).  Admissions test results are not parsed based on race or HHI.   All sounds good and simple.

My question is - what admissions test are they going to use to test these students? The same that they used for Roberto Clemente MS programs?  No fear of the test questions being leaked at all?[/quote]

Not the same test - and not the same test as used in prior years. They are being very guarded about the type of test to prevent families who have more means from gaming the system through test prep.[/quote]

LOL.  No gaming of system because no one knows what the test is.  Test Prep centers teach SAT so this is something that is available for free to all students on Khan Academy.

The kids who get in have advantages that go far beyond a simple test prep.   Usually these students belong to families with good HHI, educated and involved parents, and they  prioritize education.   This is the social reality.  While Metis made the racial achievement gap  the main focus of its report, they are only trying to solve for access to opportunity but no one is trying to address the family culture and dynamics that makes a student successful.

Unless MCPS is making race a criteria for admission, I do not think we will see an increase in the number of HI and AA students. If MCPS actually take in all students who qualify then we will see a many-fold increase in Asians students.  A shocking majority of qualified and deserving Asian students are denied the opportunity to avail of the magnet programs.   Lot more than any other race in this country.

I am sincerely hoping that MCPS selects on merit instead of race.  However, I have very little hope of MCPS actually getting it right. [/quote]

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