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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]choice study showed that there weren't many blacks and hispanics in HGC or magnet programs.

Among the findings of the Choice study: While these programs were initially designed to promote voluntary racial integration within MCPS, the 14.5 percent of the county school population currently participating in them is disproportionately white and Asian-American. The study has produced a divide, to a significant degree along racial lines, between those who benefit from the status quo and those who want to see it changed. Says the Board of Education’s O’Neill: “People feel very passionately in Montgomery County, and if it’s going to gore your ox, or, as you perceive it, take something away, it’s a very difficult situation.”

So they went and gored to the ox to racially diversify the CES and Magnet programs.  Smith furthermore said he doesn't care about highly performing students, since the're not the ones getting incarcerated.  Would rather focus on kids not performing.  [/quote]

I think you are confusing two issues, and it is hard to not think you are doing it intentionally. Smith (and MCPS, and lots of other folks) care about serving at risk kids, but expanding the pool for CES and middle school magnet screenings is not actually about serving low performers.

It is about serving[b] high performers[/b] who may not have tested, or may not have had parent letters of recommendation, or impressive extracurricular, under the old system.

I speak as someone whose proverbial ox is going to be gored by this move, in that my kids would have compelling essays and impressive extracurriculars, as I have the time and resources to support them. Those things don't make them "gifted," though, and doing away with those elements of the screening was the correct choice. [/quote][/quote]

I honestly don't think the magnets and particularly the CES are about high performers, it's also about developing talent, finding the students who are outliers, who could become high performers in the right environment, students who have the potential and may not be reaching it.   MCPS is a large PUBLIC school system that needs to meet the needs of all students and help to move all students, from all backgrounds forward.  [/quote]

The outliers may not be the those who have potential and may not be reaching it. The outliers might have reached their max capacity since the parents supplement them at home.
In this sense, the CES should recruit those have high IQs but low test scores.  [/quote]

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