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+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.

[b]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[/b] 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]

That would be illegal.

What evidence do you have that MCPS "plays with demographics"? What data do you have about the demographics of the admitted classes?

(I hope that you have nothing to do with kids in the magnet programs -- given your assumption that any poor, black, and Hispanic kids in the programs only got in because of their race/ethnicity/family income and aren't able to do the work.)[/quote]

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