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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think many people here are correlating low test scores with parental income and applauding that MCPS has tried to figure out a way to control for that.

While I personally think that makes sense in general I'm sure many of you are following what is happening in NY where people are making up different things to justify how they want the gifted programs to look in terms of racial make up. [b]In NY most of the students in the gifted programs are FARMS but they are Asian-American.[/b] Then they make up other reasons why the demographics are slanted.

You can't have it both ways. It's like administrators everywhere are making up whatever reason suits them to try to reduce the number of Asian-Americans in the magnet systems. This is really wrong.

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This isn't exactly right. Most students in gifted programs in New York are elementary-aged, and up until this year were admitted based on a test administered at 4 years old. That process was absolutely dominated by UMC families from a very small handful of neighborhoods.

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You are twisting facts. This thread is about high school magnets and for sure the top schools are overwhelmingly Asian American who are FARMS.
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