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Exactly.  If MCPS was testing EVERY STUDENT in 3rd grade and giving the top students automatic admission - it would be another thing.   If they were expanding magnet programs to accommodate the top 3-5% students in the entire county- that would be another thing.  If they were enforcing that all 2nd graders were being prepared to take that exam at school then it would be another thing.  [b]However, they are just lowering the standards so that they can say that they took more Blacks and Latinos.[/b]  What about Whites and Asians who are also ESOL and FARMS?

Poverty + under-achievement in this county IS falling along racial lines. It is irrefutable. However,  the Asian-American population (rich or poor) bears no burden to problem. [/quote]

There we go again. Another post saying that the only way to admit more black and Latino students is to lower the standards.[/quote]
DP... look at the stats. As a group, they score lower.  Statistically, it is not possible to admit more URM without lowering the threshold or changing the standards to look at a "holistic" approach, whatever that means.

I am going to bring up the Ivy league/Jew comparison again.  When Jews became over represented at Harvard, what did Harvard admissions do?  They changed the standards and made it "holistic" to exclude more Jews and increase white admissions.  Why did they do that.. well, because statistically, white students couldn't score as high as the Jewish students.  This is still happening, btw, to Asian American students.  Yes, I understand why universities do it now.. they want "diversity", which is fine.  But, this type of admission standards is not based purely on merit, which a public ES magnet program should be.

Why do you think they changed the entrance exam from 2 hour to 30min, and why do they no longer show the median scores of the accepted students, split out by the three categories?  I can't think of a single valid reason why they would stop showing these scores.[/quote]

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