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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does lowering the admission bar for magnets close the achievement gap? If this is what MCPS is doing, how will they measure it?[/quote]

There is no evidence that MCPS is lowering the admission bar for magnets. And even if MCPS were lowering the admission bar for magnets, it wouldn't close the achievement gap. Or even lessen it.

There is an idee fixe among a group of posters on DCUM that MCPS is trying to close the achievement gap by ruining the education of white and Asian-American kids, and many of the posts on this thread are a reflection of this.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

Yes.  It is almost guaranteed that when this discussion comes up, it will inevitably devolve into a handful of ([b]dare I say RACIST[/b]) posters declaring that the "Asians" or "Jews" or "Whites" are being held back or not given a good education due to some trumped up pablum about having to "water down the standards" for the AAs and Hispanics.  No one is watering down anything - 100 spots for 3000 test takers - I guarantee you that the people who are chosen, regardless of skin color or ethnicity, will be very, very bright.  But, if you are so worried - since there is a strong concentration in the Western part of the county of certain ethnicities, perhaps you can just live there and be with your own "super-bright" cohort - no need to have 45 minute bus ride -  you got all the super-bright kids in your own backyard. [/quote]

I tend to agree.  (I mean I do agree with everything you said -- but I do feel this thread has some racist undertones).[/quote]
Is it racist to state a fact, that the URM group as a whole scores lower?  Even MCPS has acknowledged that.  If as a group they score lower, how else do you increase their participation if test scores were a huge part of the admissions criteria?[/quote]

Yes,[b] it is racist to state that URM as a whole scores lower[/b], therefore providing more information and using tests that don't tip in favor of test prep somehow means that whatever URM is chosen for a program means that the child does not somehow deserve to be in the class or cannot otherwise thrive without "watering down" the program.[/quote]
Stating a fact is now considered racist.  I guess MCPS is racist then. Good to know.[/quote]

I don't think the fact part of your statement is the racist part -- its the assumption that the only URM that get into HGC somehow aren't qualified to be there and are only there because they somehow "lowered standards"[/quote]

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