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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is their an advantage to choosing a particular race?[/quote]
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School gets special treatment if a high number of blacks and/or hispanics. [/b]The Equitability Accountability study has 5 certain areas of focus, and the only groups (I won't use "minority" since Hispanic students outnumber all groups including whites at MCPS) to get special treatment even if non-FARMS are black and hispanic.[/quote]

Citation please, with specifics about the "special treatment".[/quote]

There’s no special treatment. PP is trolling.[/quote]

[b]Then why do they track this data?[/b]
There is a massive advantage to checking the Black box for college admissions, so maybe it's smart to check the same box when your kid is in high school. [/quote]

Because they're following federal requirements.[/quote]

Yup. For the National Center for Education Statistics reports:  https://nces.ed.gov/programs/raceindicators/[/quote]

And these are the federal definitions of each category:

American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and maintaining tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

Hispanic or Latino: A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
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