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I haven't seen a lot of disagreement to universal screening. I think even the people who are upset their children didn't get in see the logic in universal screening. That is not the problem.
What people are up in arms about is that they are no longer picking the top scoring kids from the county. They argue that the reason MCPS isn't doing this is because if you took the top scoring kids from the county even WITH universal screening you would still get a disproportionate group of Asian American kids admitted.

S[b]o they made up this peer cohort criteria[/b] to get their desired results which is to increase the number of URMs. The argument is that if MCPS was able to increase the number of URMs by taking all the top scoring kids from the county they would get rid of the peer cohort criteria. Basically MCPS is making up whatever criteria serves their purpose which is to make the magnet programs more diverse and decrease the number of Asian American students and increase URM students. Some would call that discrimination while others would not. I'm not expressing an opinion about what whether it is good or bad, but this is what MCPS has done.

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ALL of the admissions criteria are "made up". By definition. There is no Deity handing down stone tablets with middle-school magnet admissions criteria just southwest of the intersection of Penn Shop Road and Ridge Road.

What's more, the school district gets to choose its admissions criteria (within the bounds of the law). They might not be the ones you would choose, or the ones I would choose, but that's something the school district gets to do.[/quote]

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