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[quote=Anonymous]I am curious - why is  this statistics newsworthy? Does this mean that Hispanics will no longer get the minority advantage at MCPS because they are majority? I am all for it.  But surely we will still provide aid n based on household income  and intervention based on language barrier.  What more are Hispanics asking?

I am an Asian (Indian).  I was concerned about the schools in the age of curriculum pre-2.0 as well as the current curriculum 2.0.   So, as far as I am concerned, nothing has changed for me.  More Hispanics/Blacks/While/Muslims/Jews/Chinese/Indians  ....it does not matter to me.

What matters to me is that the schools provide the education and intervention to those who need it, and  the schools allow  opportunities for acceleration and provide rigor to those who need it.

I do not care about a ceiling on achievement and there should not be one.  The question is can the schools raise the floor on the achievements? I feel that the school education sucks throughout USA. The college education on the other hand is still world class.  Why is that?  Maybe because college is not free and merit matters more than color or race  - something the schools should think of following.

In other words, MCPS schools as compared to world class school system were always at a C-.  For an legal immigrant who was educated in my 3rd world home country, the low standard in a world super power and affluent country was a shock.  I don't particularly care if the schools become white or hispanic - from my point of view, MCPS was not delivering before and it will not deliver now. We need to concentrate our efforts on rising the standards of MCPS, and not worry about the color of the students.

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