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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those worried about the magnets being watered down,[b] aren't there many qualified kids who don't quite make the cut?[/b]  Would it be so bad if, for example, the HGCs served the top 7% of kids in the county rather than the top 3%?

Honestly, I think the best solution here is to keep the HGCs as they are, but to make sure that ALL schools have acceleration available for the kids in that 90 - 97% range.  That would sweep up a lot of URMs as well as middle class white kids who are not "highly gifted" but who can handle more acceleration than is currently provided. [/quote]

There are. But even these kids are mostly white/Asian.  [/quote]

+ 1.  The reality is that that the top 10% students will be Asians and Whites in MCPS.  And the difference in scores in standardized tests are  in 100s, So, if you expand the program - (which you should) - you will still get predominantly Asians and Whites, if you go by test scores and academic performance.

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