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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do people from India and Pakistan agree that they share a similar culture? Narendra Modi and his Hindutva buddies are doing their best to make the point that not even everyone in India shares a similar culture.

To say nothing of the history of relations between China, Korea, and Japan.

Next you'll tell me that Turks and Armenians share a similar culture.[/quote]

So silly, right?

And yet, here we are.

Well-educated families from Nigeria are automatically lumped in as ‘African-American’ and MCPS counts them the same as lower-income African-American families whose ancestors have been in the US for generations.

Surely, all AA families are not all the same?  [/quote]

When you say "lumped in," what do you mean? By federal law, MCPS needs to track and report on basic demographic categories. So, for those documents, ADOS and Black immigrants are obviously tracked together.

However, every "internal" school report card that I've ever seen breaks out Black/AA FARMS and Black/AA non-FARMS (they do the same for other groups in the school). They can't delineate by immigration status because they don't collect that information, nor should they, but they absolutely track low-income AA students separately from middle class AA students.

But if you are talking about magnet admissions, being Black but zoned for Pyle does not give you an advantage over any other Pyle student *unless* you receive FARMS, in which case you get the same "boost" that any other student receiving FARMS receives.  [/quote]

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