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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GT and Magnet schools are disproportionately made up of asian and white children. Their presence creates more of an achievement gap by attracting highly educated white or asian families to the area to take advantage of the centers. If the centers and magnets shut down, these families would move elsewhere which would be better for the other MCPS schools by reducing the achievement gap. MCPS could then focus all its resources on the students performing at the bottom and come back to address students in the middle. Right now, MCPS is good for students at the very bottom and students at the very top. The rest get ignored.

Shutting down the centers would also support social emotional learning. Its very harmful to minority or lower performing children to see children who look different from them always walking off to the gifted classes. It doesn't matter that everyone had equal opportunity to take the test and admittance was by score. To a kid its noticeable that the white and asian kids go to one set of classes and they go to another one in their own school. No its not fair to the white and asian kids but they have other advantages in life if they are already smart enough to get into a center or magnet. [/quote]

This is the kind of zero-sum thinking many parents try to discourage in their children.  It is ugly.[/quote]

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