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You are assuming that by using an opaque standard that cannot not be explained to anyway, magically there are an increase in diversity in gifted programs. Why not invested in K-2 more heavily for the disadvantaged kids and let everyone have the same admission standard? Why are you so against having a standard?

To be honest, if the whole curriculum is so watered down to close the achivement gap, there won't be such demand for the magnet program anyway. [/quote]

What's magic about it? MCPS commissioned a report (the Metis report) that, among other things, identified barriers to entry. MCPS has now redone its admissions process in an effort to remove some of those barriers to entry. The revised admissions process will either increase participation by previously underparticipating groups, or it won't. Either way, there will be measurable results.[/quote]

Metis report reported what MCPS wanted it to report. The achievement gap is not a creation of the magnet programs. The achievement gap may be one of the reasons that AA and HI students are under-participating in the magnet program.

AA and HI students are under-participating and under-achieving in all academic areas throughout the US - be it schools, colleges, SATs or scholastic competitions.  And this is not the function of race alone -  but a function of generations of poverty and broken family structure for AA, and poverty, language barrier, illiteracy, immigration status and displaced families for HI students.

Changing admissions criteria for magnet programs is not going to fix that.  However, it just might end up fucking up one of the things that does work.[/quote]

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