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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow lots to read but thank you for the summary. Early identification of URM students and early mentoring can help achieve equity without discrimination against another group.  [/quote]

Agreed.  But how do we do this?  Very important issue so I am truly interested in hearing how this can be achieved.[/quote]

I am no education expert. Teachers can start to identify gifted kids from K, you don’t have to be an advanced reader to be gifted. Maybe teachers need to figure how how to identify giftedness without assessing advanced reading and math skills. Parents play a big role in their child’s education and future. Unfortunately gifted kids will be left behind if they don’t have an involved parent. Each title one school should have a mentor for these kids, make sure they are doing what they need to stay on track. The mentor along with the AART should make sure these students to have what they need to thrive and be ready for TJ if that’s where they want to go. [/quote]

Sloan Presidio told SB members that there wasn't a "pipeline issue" because there were sufficient numbers of Black and Hispanic students in 8th grade receiving AAP/LLIV services to fill TJ if they applied and were admitted.

But if you accepted this you had to think (1) participation in AAP equates to meeting the qualifications for TJ and (2) therefore, there was a problem with the admissions process that FCPS had to "fix."

A better analysis would have been to acknowledge that TJ had been screening for a higher level of qualification than simply meeting the threshold for AAP/LLIV services, and that FCPS still had work to do to challenge its Black and Hispanic students in AAP/LLIV.  Instead, in the rush to change the TJ demographics, the baby was thrown out with the bath water, and objective measures of qualification were tossed aside in favor of experience factors that, as Brabrand's emails make clear, Brabrand made sure were reverse-engineered to produce the result that he wanted.  [/quote]

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