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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to OP's original question. 
You betcha they did! The sneaky thing, I mean.
Are you surprised?
I am not.[/quote]

20 pages later and I still don't know what "the sneaky thing" is.

OP seemed to think it was screening a bunch of kids, but we know screening has become almost universal. So that's not "the sneaky thing."

So....what is it? [/quote]

It's complete BS. The OP is insinuating that they used this lottery to improve equity. Newsflash - the lower the bar on the lottery the closer the demographics will be to the county!  This is obvious and not some underhanded plot to subert democrazy.[/quote]

Of course it is a obvious method to do an Asian purge. Doesn't make it right. [/quote]

Not really, they couldn't administer the CogAT so instead of just splitting hairs they did a lottery. This result was the overly represented groups in years past went down but Asians are still the most well represented group in the magnet as a percentage of the overall population. Further, selection was race blind so to claim it's an Asian purge seems melodramatic.[/quote]

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It is not melodrama. It is math. How do you get the demographics you want and reduce Asians without having having a transparent race quota? Lower the bar for scores. Get more students in the lottery pool. Logic being that with a lower bar you can get more non-Asian kids. And now with a broader pool do a lottery. Sprinkle in some other factors just in case so that you can put your finger on the scale in case the lower bar doesn't work. Voila! You have your desired reduction/purge of Asian kids with a sneaky defacto quota incorporated. Why is the process so difficult to understand?

Now of course second order effects are 1. Lottery means unpredictability and so parents won't really consider the magnets as something you can count on. So some families will move to better school districts. 2. The quality of the magnet class goes down and so it is not something people will aspire for and that's a downward spiral. Essentially in a few years the magnets will be just above average programs in large schools which benefited from having the magnets. 3. Basic problems with MCPS schools with groups that have been lagging will be glossed over by showing a few kids in magnet programs. Overall, loss loss for the entire community. A few progressive activities who have no kids or no kids eligible for Montgomery county magnets will declare victory and move on to dismantle some other place - road to hell was paved with good intentions.

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It is such an obvious approach. Unfortunately a loss for the community and MCPS. Don't worry about the Asians. They will do fine.

Doesn't mean there won't be a legal challenge against the principle given the transparent objectives and the resultant dramatic reduction in Asian percentages.  Sometimes it is just not enough to put your head down and work - as the Asian community has done. The blatant racism from the so called progressives is just too much. [/quote]

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