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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC is at a high poverty middle school with none of the clubs you listed but we get emails all the time about FREE enrichment activities. Free after school coding camps, free weekend math opportunities, free science activities.

Some of these are sponsored by MCPS and many take place at the school or are virtual.

Kids who are interested can take advantage of these opportunities.

Why would your child even want to go to a STEM magnet if your child has shown no interest? You sound like someone who can afford to enrich but you are just trying to stir up trouble and use this opportunity to bash "certain ethnic groups."[/quote]

DP, but what are you talking about? The OP never mentioned any ethnic groups at all. This discussion is not about ethnicity. I’m also confused where you inferred that OP “can afford to enrich.”

I will respond to what you said in your post, though. Those of us with students who are NOT in high poverty schools do not get emails all the time about free enrichment opportunities. Many of these programs are very specifically directed toward schools, such as yours, and not toward other schools. OP sounds like they are part of the “missing middle” in that high poverty schools get programs directed at their students, low poverty schools have families that enrich privately, and those in between sort of come up feeling ignored or lacking the ability to compete. I think that was the OP’s entire point. Kind of how elite universities end up with lots of 1 percenters and also recruit 1st gen students (first in their family to go to college), and a strong suburban student with neither hook gets passed over based on aspects of parent income/background they have no power to change in spite of having demonstrated ability and interest in every way they actually can control. [/quote]

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