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[quote=Anonymous][quote]MCPS knew it was trying to decrease Asian representation in the magnets and they knew this was controversial.[/quote]

Sure but I think that MCPS is so insular that they honestly did not expect the outrage. They were more afraid of UMC white parents in the DCC who are in their business all the time. Many of the people in MCPS leadership now are part of the DCC crowd anyway. When Starr was superintendent, Bethesda always received favorable treatment. Despite his SFW tweets, he was very desperate to be accepted by the Whitman and other W crowd. Smith is a little out to lunch and not really connected to anyone or super engaged so its the next level down running the show. They are very ingrained with the DCC.

Regardless though, I agree that the selection committee isn't where the bias was applied. The central office gave the committee applications to consider. It had already removed most of the Asian American kids. This way MCPS could claim that the selection committee never saw race. This is also why kids with 99% COGAT and 99.9999% MAP were not even waitlisted. They never received consideration.

Someone needs to look at the data before the central office culled the list and see whether Asian American students really were required to score substantially higher to make into the consideration pool. [/quote]

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