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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, you expect that the median scores of admitted students went down, and you would use this as evidence for your assertion that MCPS discriminated on the basis of race.

Well, have at it, I guess.[/quote]
and you are perfectly ok with that, but never would be ok with any policy that discriminates against blacks.  Who exactly is racist here?

MCPS is discriminating against people based on where they live, which in this case, is a proxy for race because most of the rejected students with top scores happen to be white/asian on the western side.

MCPS wanted more URM in the magnets, so they widened the testing net.  Perfectly fine and acceptable.  But if those students could get in without having to lower the threshold, then why change the testing, why stop reporting median test scores of accepted students, why look at "peer cohort" which disproportionately affects students from the western side?  They couldn't figure out a way to increase URM admittance rate without having to change something.

Any policy which gives favor to one side over the other is not a fair policy.   Remember the policy the US had about favoring European immigrants over others, like Asians?  Some of the Trump supporters want to bring back this policy, which is favoring one location over another.   Wouldn't you agree that was not a fair policy?  Yet somehow MCPS policy of favoring one group based on location over the other is ok to you.[/quote]

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