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If there are high achieving black and latinos who could compete and get admission into the magnet programs, but are not in the program because of lack of information or because of lack of space in the program, then I can assure you for each of such AA/HI student, there are  tens of White/Asian students who are being excluded.  I think a bigger injustice is being done to these Asian/White students - because MCPS wants to play the race card and the numbers game.  A brain is a terrible thing to waste.[/quote]

You just said that it's a bigger injustice when a qualified Asian or white student does not get to participate in the HGC than when a qualified black or Latino student does not get to participate in the HGC.

That's appalling.[/quote]

I did not say that and you are lacking reading comprehension.

It is not 1 to 1 comparison. I am pointing out that an exponential number of qualified Asians/Whites are being denied admission for every single qualified AA/HI student. So, the educational needs  of scores of qualified Asians/Whites students does not matter as compared to one qualified  AA /HI student?

Every eligible student should be made to take the admission test.  If there is a need to have more seats, then create more seats.  If the additional cost of the magnet program is only $40 per student, then MCPS should make the parents pay that amount or ask the parents to fundraise for it.

If an eligible AA/HI student did not get the education they deserve then it is as much a travesty as when an eligible Asian/White student did not get the education they deserve.  Why have different standards for different people?[/quote]

I'd say you're both wrong.  The PP who misunderstood you was jumping to conclusions.  But the things you throw around are completely unsubstantiated.  [b]Exponential number of qualified Asians/Whites?[/b]  What does that even mean and where's your evidence this is happening.  There was the comparison of PARCC scores to HGC admissions which showed by that measure Asians are under represented by about 3%, Blacks over represented by about the same.  But those numbers are trivial, one for one, and well within the expected given PARCC is not an entrance exam for the HGC.  I just see no evidence that scores of qualified Asians/Whites have been turned away or that any other race has been admitted in unfair numbers.

Your reading comprehension is no better, the special programs do not cost $40 per student in the program, they cost $40 per student in the county!!!  The administrative cost per student in the programs is $1,450 for each of the 880 students in the HGC and $4,750 for each of the 830 students in the MS/HS programs.  This is above and beyond what it already costs to educate a child in MCPS.  Not clear how these costs would scale if the program expanded but donations won't suffice.[/quote]

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