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[quote=Anonymous][quote]No, we don't. Merit means academic performance in the classroom and the actual admission test. Merit does not mean race, gender, or low SES, or being zoned to poor performing schools. Please do not twist the meaning of merit to mean what you think it should mean. This is social engineering for a problem (achievement gap) that MCPS has failed to solve by actually teaching poor performing URM students. MCPS has played the race card very cleverly and divided the parent community. [b]They have made highly gifted students and high performing racial groups the villains, whereas the truth is that they have failed to bring up the standards of education and achievement of URM students for years now. We have many students who are functionally illiterate and they are graduating out of MCPS. All MCPS cares is the optics that many delusional people buy[/b]. This is a way for MCPS to be absolved of all responsibilities to not bridge the achievement gap. In fact in the last 7 years the gap has widened. [/quote]

+1  Magnet admission is not merit based. I agree with the above poster that merit by definition does not mean factoring in location, race, SES or any other factor other than academic achievement and performance. MCPS tests for a baseline and then plays with demographics to get the appearance it wants.

I actually would support setting aside affirmative action seats for low SES minority students that score over a baseline requirement and are held to the same standards once they are in the magnet. I don't support MCPS only being partially transparent about doing it. I also don't support MCPS playing the race card against Asian Americans to appease the UMC or MC whites in the DCC to save their spots. This was just plain wrong and MCPS will lose the lawsuit that is coming their way. I'm not Asian American.

The bolded part from above is the biggest problem. MCPS spends too much time trying to deceive people and change the optics without trying to solve the problem. They don't care about gifted children or underperforming children. For MCPS, they are all just widgets and the organization just wants to create the optics that the widgets are all just doing fine when they aren't. [/quote]

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