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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do t like the constant lies here from one individual. I really hope Jeff tracks and sees if she is coming from a MCPS server or something.

A) ces and magnet is not at all a “merit based system”.  Merit based means quantitative testing based, like the NYC magnets were: stack ranked scores, take the top 400 scorers, publish them

B) MCPS Starr and smith have consistently said for four years that their focus is on the achievement gap and they feel [b]adding a few diversity kids [/b]to the fixed ces and magnet programs may do that.

C) There is something tax payers, students, parents can do. And that is vote, file formal complaints, ask for transparency, ask for more centers, ask for better and more challenging curricula/more subject matter, and demand accountability.[/quote]

A few diversity kids will never close the achievement gap.  So I don't think that's their reasoning.  I think they would like more kids to have the opportunity though.[/quote]

I think they just didn't like the optics of the magnet programs being majority white and Asian. My kids went through a majority hispanic elementary school. The hispanic families we have gotten to know (middle class, speak better, but not perfect English) never seemed to care at all about their kids attending the magnets. And they know about them. It was just not a priority. They wanted kids to be with friends at their local school. Never heard them complaining about the curriculum, other than the weird and annoying way math is taught in 2.0 & no textbooks available. Most of the native born families (including myself) are this way as well. Let the Asians have the magnets. If the parent cares about education, their kid will succeed in school.[/quote]

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