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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Another poster here. New poster, I'm sure you're well-intentioned, but you need to go back and read the entire thread to see what she's really saying. The point is NOT about whether there is an achievement gap - there may be an achievement gap, or there may not, but it's IMMATERIAL to her main point, which I'll get to next. Like the other PP said, the achievement gap is a straw man.

The crazy PP's main point is that there's a plot by a supposed white MoCo "old guard" to sabotage Asians by getting rid of math acceleration. This is ridiculous on the face of it in so many ways -- even if there is an achievement gap. For two reasons that have been repeated to her:

1. The white MoCo "old guard," by which she means white MoCo administrator parents, suffer equally if math acceleration is removed for their own progeny, so they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, for what again, to score off the Asians? This defies common sense.

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2. MoCo's clear motivation is to close the gap between Whites/Asians and Blacks/Hispanics, and THIS is why they're teaching to the middle.[/quote]

I have painfully read the whole thread. i do not need your paraphrase. You are speaking for her with modification and hindsight.  She flatly denied the existence of a gap and challenged the poster.  Poof, emerged a news article from the Post only a year ago acknowledging the widening rift in achievement performance of Asian American middle school students and everyone else (referencing a study in MD).

We do not need your interpretation.  We a capable of getting at the issues and concerns raised on both sides.

Thanks

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