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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has simply found what they believe is a loophole in the law prohibiting making race an admissions criteria.  If it were my 99,99,99,99 child who got passed over, I would definitely talk to a lawyer.  This may even be a class action lawsuit worthy.  I would be interested to see what would come of it.[/quote]
Nothing will come of it because MCPS will say that it has a legitimate, non-race based policy rationale for the new criteria (i.e., making sure all students in the county are able to be with a comparable cohort). There's no civil right being violated here.[/quote]
The county is offering a selective program under the guise of being race neutral but implements a policy specifically designed to put more AA and Hispanics in the program.  I think there is a case to be made.

Think about this scenerio:

Lets say that MCPS decides that there are not enough Asian and White kids getting free lunch.  They decide that there is no longer a requirement to apply for free and reduced lunch and instead decide to have teachers and administrators identify a large group of kids who seem like they might be a good fit to get free lunch.  They then ask all these families for their income.  Letters come in the mail and there are families told that even though they only make $10k/yr their kids won't be getting free lunch because they have a peer group in Middle School who can give them part of their free lunch.  There are kids from Bethesda/Potomac whose families make ($ unknown) that are given free lunch because they don't have a peer group of free lunch kids at their home MS.[/quote]

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