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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being opaque means that MCPS can get the non-qualified URMs in so that they can say that they are closing the achievement gap.  Which is stupid.

Even if they create another magnet program of all URMs  they will see that the achievement gap still remains.  They may also find out that they created another marker for achievement gap - between the regular magnet and the URM only magnet.

The way to close the achievement gap is simply to have mandatory intervention from K-12 for all students who are lagging behind and shorter summer breaks.  If MCPS needs to parent, then they need to parent.  [/quote]

I'm going to say this again, in capital letters, for emphasis. THIS IS NOT ABOUT CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP. [b]THIS IS ABOUT REMOVING BARRIERS TO ENTRY.
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Mandatory intervention from K-12 for all students who are lagging behind isn't going to do a darn thing for a kid who could be in a gifted magnet program but isn't because their parents don't have the resources and aren't in the know.

It's as though we were playing word association, and everybody's immediate response to "black and Hispanic kids" is "kids who are behind". As though they were one and the same. They're not.[/quote]

The barrier to entry such as their parents are not in the know should be removed entirely, which MCPS is doing. Stop testing quantative reasoning because Asians and Whites always score better for SMAC middle school magnets? Shortening elementary school magnet test to a paltry half an hour? It shows what MCPS really thinks about barrier to entry.  [/quote]

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