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[quote=Anonymous]""I have seen AA and HI students who were taken in highly selective programs just to boost MCPS numbers crash and burn in these programs. Currently, many students in the magnet programs are supplementing in some way and they are not relying just on the magnet programs to get ahead. The test prep centers have also become a tutoring center since many years. Students who are attending these centers are not going there because they need academic intervention, in fact many of these students are much more accelerated than the magnet programs that they are in.

Most AA and HI students are not getting any supplemental help at home or school. Most importantly, even if programs for academic enrichment and accelerations are put in the school, the schools cannot force these students to take supplemental help. The achievement gap has become the problem of the school systems to solve, where as it should be the problem of the parents to solve. The school system need to only provide programs for tutoring and supplementing in the school, and parents should make their children comply in attending these programs.

The AA and HI students who have done well in highly selective programs are usually those who belonged to middle class homes were education is valued, parents are educated and are well aware of the benefit of magnet programs. Most are immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean and do not carry the historical burden of slavery. ""

This is pure BS. My black kid was one of the very few black boys in his MS magnet, but there were a handful of black girls.  They all did fine and some were the leaders of their class. Your ideas that black parents are not educated nor do they support education is outdated. BTW, there was plenty of slavery in the Caribbean. Your knowledge of history and culture is very limited.[/quote]

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