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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
That would be nice, but MCPS is explicitly prohibited from using race as a factor. That is the entire reason why they have been forced to a next-best option, which is using "presence of a peer group with similar abilities."

Some argue this discriminates against Asians, but actually it discriminates against UMC children, to the extent that it is discrimination to acknowledge that UMC/rich kids benefit from a whole host of advantages that their poor/working class peers do not.

So, if you are a middle class or poor/working class Asian American student, you would benefit from this approach just as much as a Black or Latinx student living in the same neighborhood.

No MCPS 100% used race. They ran the racial demographics against the first look of who scored the highest. The areas with the highest asian concentration became the schools that were targeted. There was no coincidence that asian admits dropped so much and whites went up. Its attempting to use geography to mask racial quotas. Their new system helped lower performing UMC white kids in less asian areas.

The selection process was name- and race-blind.[/quote]

The data analysis that went on before the selection committee received eligible was NOT race blind. [b]The data analysis that went on to establish where the "cohorts" would be located was not race blind[/b].

Look this is no different than asking your HR department for demographic data on where the AA,  Hispanics, Whites and Asians work AND then making RIF decisions targeting departments with which minority you would like to get rid of today. You just establish a race blind committee to conduct sizable reductions in the department with the most minorities you do not want anymore. Since the department is primarily that minority, you'll hit your desired goal -which is EXACTLY what MCPS did.

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Where are you getting this from? The determination of a cohort at the home middle school was one element of the race-blind selection process.[/quote]

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