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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really mean to suggest that 30% (more or less) of kids are identified as gifted because of their race? And about 10% of kids -- of all races -- are identified as gifted because they scored 90pctile or above on the test? Making the total of 40% (more or less) who are called gifted in MoCo.
This 30% is a huge number. It leads to unbelievable results. It would mean, for example, that the majority of minority race kids in my kids' magnets got there because of some political motivation, rather than test results. I find this impossible to believe. 
There must be some other explanation![/quote]

Did you not ask this question before and left the thread? Or that was another PP. In any case, where did you get the 30% and 10% breakdown? All I was trying to say was the percentage of kids identified as gifted is close to 40% or so in MCPS because of the push to identify more minority kids from low SES as advanced learners. If the standard of identification is lowered more kids of the minority category will be identified as GT or advanced learners. Before someone tries to accuse me of racism, let me clarify I believe minority kids deserve as much as any other kids to be intellectually highly gifted. However when politically motivated people see the data they, they want quick fix to social issues.

Magnet program is a different process though. Kids get selected based on a more rigorous selection process, even though I have been told race and gender balance is looked into. Because of this some (deserving) minority kids might be accepted into program with lower test results and class grades than other (deserving) kids with higher test results and class grades.
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