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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]In her memorandum dismissing the lawsuit, Xinis wrote: “… the Court cannot see how the Pandemic Plan visited a disproportionate burden on Asian American students when the percentage of admitted Asian American students so substantially outpaces the percentage representation among all applicants.”[/i][/quote]

So does this mean MCPS admitted more asians into the program compared to the percentage of asians applied? So it is fair and ok to not admit other equally qualified asian students? May be this is posted out of context?

Doesn't MCPS have a responsibility to meet the academic needs of ALL students? [/quote]

Yes, I understand that this is what happened pre-2018. Asian parents were focused, applied for their DC and had their DC do test prep. So, they were disproportionately represented.   It then evolved to testing everyone at Grade 3 and taking the top whatever percent. This brought in DC whose were bright but whose parents were less focused on the application process. Since there was/is a finite number of seats, the Asian population declined relatively speaking and some people were unhappy that the process became more competitive (hence the lawsuit).  I think that it has evolved to [b]more of a lottery[/b] since then.  [/quote]

So is it a lottery done in transparent manner ? No one knows unfortunately.[/quote]

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