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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about..I want MCPS to have programs geared to high performing students.  I want them to be chosen for their ability to perform well in advanced/accelerated classrooms.  I don't care what color their skin is.  [b]I also want English Language classes for kids that do not speak English fluently.  I do not want them to reflect the demographics of the county. [/b] I want them to help the kids that need it.[/quote]

I would expect the ESOL classes, overall, to reflect the demographics of the kids who do not speak English fluently.[/quote]

And I would expect the magnet classes, overall, to reflect the demographics of the kids who would perform well in accelerated classes.  Neither one is likely to reflect the demographics of the county.[/quote]

Why not? Why wouldn't (for example) poor kids benefit from accelerated classes? [/quote]

I have seen many poor Asian kids benefit from accelerated classes. However, to be in the accelerated classes, these poor Asian kids first proved that they were high achievers.  How did they do that? By their academic performance.

Any kid belonging to any gender, race, SES, who has demonstrated through academic performance in an admission test that they are capable of handling the rigor of a magnet program, will benefit from an accelerated class. The magnet program also benefits from getting the best students. So, the program should take the best students based on their academic performance.  Why choose academic performance and not some other random criteria?  Mainly because it is for an academic program.  No one asks candidates to write Haiku for a basketball team tryout now, do they?

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