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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]

You've got a seamless argument here.

Premise: Everything MCPS does is about closing the achievement gap.
Conclusion:  Therefore, everything MCPS does is about closing the achievement gap.[/quote]

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