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Even the "investigation" does not allege that MCPS used race explicitly. It alleges that MCPS used geography as a proxy for race by choosing kids who were outliers based on their home school.

In the case of PP, it seems both kids were coming from the same home school and therefore geography and peer cohort were not part of the equation.

If you want to believe that MCPS had a ton of reviewers for the CES program application, and all of them saw the race of the applicants AND kept quiet about it, then sure. Go ahead and engage in conspiracy theories. But the more reasonable conclusion based on the information PP provided is that the accepted child had other strengths and factors in play that the reviewers saw but that PP isn't privy to.[/quote]

First, the investigation is whether MCPS changes in admission discriminates against Asian American kids. It will be looking at everything including whether geography became a proxy for race based discrimination but is not limited to this. If MCPS took other actions to deny minority (Asian American) students in favor of majority (white) students then this becomes part of it.

Second the admission committee did not review the profiles of every incoming 8th grade student in MCPS. The central office winnowed down the list that it gave to the committee. No one in MCPS has ever said that the group providing the pool of highly able students to the admissions committee was ever race blind. They were not and I certainly suspect that they were running the numbers as they tweaked how much to penalize some schools to get the racial make up they wanted while protecting the lower performing whites in the DCC.

Third, within local CES admissions there is a desire to get the racial numbers up for groups that are small in number. This has been going on forever. Principals and central office staff look for capable AA and Latino kids and have pushed them ahead of other higher scoring applicants.  For the principals at the home ES, they get brownie points for pushing an AA or latino kid into a CES. They benefit further by keeping the higher scoring Asian kid at their home school to bump up their scores. The ES principals in the W clusters are ridiculously competitive with each other over getting the highest % in the 90s over their peer schools.

Fourth, this is happening at the high school level too. Central office staff supposedly tried to strongly pressure Blair SMAC to accept some students over more qualified students.  The teachers and staff at Blair pushed back and succeeded this time but they'll eventually lose out to the central office. [/quote]

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