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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Way more hoodrats and landscapers than NIH GS13s. While there are a bunch, it doesn’t even have the highest concentration which is up 355. People act like if a couple of low paid lawyers live in a mixed part of town they claim that defines the area. There [b]is[/b] 10 low income residents in silver spring TP for every professional. That doesn’t make it a white collar part of town[/quote]

You're focused on the wrong question. The question isn't "Are the kids of NIH GS15s the majority in Takoma Park?"

No one would argue that is the case.

What PP was pointing to, though, was a totally different question. "Are the top 2% of kids in Takoma Park likely to be just as competitive for Blair magnet as the top 2% of kids from Whitman or whatever?"

OP made a pretty specific claim - that kids in Takoma Park and Silver Spring must be benefiting from some sort of affirmative action if admitted to the competitive test-based magnet programs. The obvious retort to that is that there exist plenty of kids in Takoma Park and Silver Spring who are just as smart, and well-supported, and driven, as kids in other parts of the county, and as a result those kids don't need affirmative action to be admitted.

Also, check your English grammar before throwing around words like hoodrats. [/quote]

Kids in Takoma Park have the only magnetvstyle elementary school and the 25 reserved spots at TPMS magnet, so theres that.[/quote]

This.[/quote]

And supportive parents who value diversity and more often than not work at a nearby research university like UMD, Hopkins, Georgetown, etc [/quote]

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