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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why have Special Ed programs? Why have ESOL programs? Why have sports in school?

All of this costs money and if we remove ESOL and Sp Ed programs then we will have more money for general education.[/quote]

Of course they do and money is always tight and people have to fight for special programs in every budget cycle.  But ESOL and Special Ed have mandates and federal money behind them.  Anyone who wants to maintain or expand magnets needs to have a better argument than [i]money is spent other places why not here[/i].  Anyway, the costs and justifications are spelled out in the Choice Study.[/quote]

If it's because the funding is so tight that MCPS have to decide between special education programs and gift programs. I support SE wholeheartedly. If there is funding allocated for gifted program, I want it be a fair game by that I mean the county can decide whatever criteria to use for admission, or allocate more funding to support the preparation of the URM group, but the criteria must be objective, and skin-color be out of the picture completely.[b] My 5 grader Asian boy thinks he is "black" in summer and "white" in winter[/b], call him dumb but the fact is kids are not born with race consciousness. It's the adults who keep reminding and reinforcing they each belongs to a specific group.  One of my friends of mixed Asian/Black always fills "black" for their kids race because a simple thing as to check a different box will instantly broaden the opportunities of their kids.  Some may think it's fair and is as the compensation to the black/latino's suffering in the past.  I just think it's absurd. [/quote]
lol.. my half Asian kid kind of thinks the same, since in the summer, they get really dark.

I am going to tell my kids to not check Asian when applying for college.  Sad, but, it's how it is.

I don't think Latinos have historically suffered to the same degree as Blacks in this country.[/quote]

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