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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Last year's 5th Grade cohort had every reason to gripe.  It felt like MCPS changed the rules in the middle of the game.  The pilot program introduced a different set of criteria for admission, but the presentation of that criteria was very opaque.  In part, this was because MCPS wasn't sure how it would go.  But it was also because MCPS was not brave enough to share the outlier theory with a bunch of hyper-engaged parents before they implemented the theory.

This year, however, it's clear.  Unless the CES kid is an outlier at their home middle school, they will likely be returning to the home middle school to attend enriched classes.

This is reality.  If it is not a tolerable one, MCPS families can (1) attend private school, (2) home school, (3) move .[/quote]

MCpS had a clear goal last year in ms magnet selection process, which was to reduce the number of Asian students in the program.  Whatever criteria they used, as long as they fit they goal, would be considered.  Laws only forbid using race  as a selection criteria.  The end results of the new selection were  more white and hispanic in MS magnets.students.  Most Asian families are immogrants so they dont know to fight for their children. [/quote]

I don't think reducing the number of Asians was their "goal" although it may have been a "result" of the changes they implemented to admissions.  There is a difference.[/quote]

+1 I would even argue that the new policy will HELP Asian American applicants who are outside of highly segregated schools. The folks who got "dinged" by the new process are the ones in economically and racially segregated schools. If you are not in one of those zones, the new policy can only help, and we know from the data that there are more Asians outside Bethesda/Potomac than there are in those zones. [/quote]

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