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I'm not sure.  This is a problem that basically every school district in the country is dealing with, and a district like MCPS with significant racial and economic diversity is just dealing with it in a higher profile manner.

There have been multiple dissertations written on how to identify gifted kids from URM groups, so I'm not going to pretend to know more than the experts.  All I'm saying is that we have to identify the correct problem.  [b]There are gifted kids in every racial/ethnic/economic group. [/b] We know that.  We also know that the kids identified as "gifted" in MCPS are not at all representative of the student population.  So...how do we make sure that we're not excluding gifted and high achieving kids, who would be successful in the magnet programs, just because they are poor or Black or Latino, or whatever?

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But unfortunately there are many people, on DCUM as well as in real life, who think that some racial/ethnic/economic groups have more gifted kids than others. I.e., the reason that whites and Asians are overrepresented at the application magnets and that Hispanics and blacks are underrepresented (using MCPS classifications and MCPS demographics) is that whites and Asians are smarter than Hispanics and blacks. In other words, Hispanics and blacks aren't in the application magnets because they're not qualified to be in the application magnets. Hence the fact-free leap from "MCPS wants to get more Hispanic and black kids to apply" to "MCPS is going to admit unqualified Hispanic and black kids just because they're Hispanic and black!"[/quote]

Well thank you for generalizing. I do not think any racial group is smarter. However, I do think that when you have a high SES as a result of education, you will make your kids follow the same route for success,

So, it is common to see the children of recent African immigrants in magnet programs vs. the children of FARMS eligible AA.  So within the same race, one group is doing better than the other.

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