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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  One child in magnet, one in local "W" feeder school.  If the magnet were watered down, as it inevitably will have to be if decision-makers put demographics ahead of ability, then we would decide that the magnet is no longer worth the commute.  Our child would return to our home school.  I have no doubt that many if not most people from high-performing clusters will make similar decisions.  Then you are left with more segregation than you had before.  Remember that magnets were originally designed to voluntarily integrate schools.  At TPMS, for example, magnet kids are integrated into the school for all classes except the three magnets.  Take away a true magnet, and you take away the voluntary desegregation and are right back where MCPS started.  [/quote]

Now I have a sincere question for people who work for MCPS: do you, in real life, get told face-to-face by affluent parents that you should be grateful that they deign to send their children to your schools? Or is this something that (I hope) only happens anonymously on DCUM?[/quote]

Sorry, but you are trying hard to make this a question of race, as in AA or HI kids are somehow discriminated against by not being represented proportionately to county population in the magnet programs.  The reality is that AA and HI are not doing well in even basic tests like PARCC and MAP.  They are falling behind in academics not only in MCPS but all over this nation. They have been given the same resources at school but are unable to do better because of their culture that looks down on academic achievements.

Every single student in the magnet program - White, Asian, HI or AA - deserves to be there and did not get in because of quota system. If you think that for some reason MCPS is not doing enough to let URM know about the magnet program, then let every eligible URM take the admission test.  If they rank high enough to get selected then they be asked to complete the rest of the admission packet.

AA and HI parents are OUTRAGED that possibly a handful of AA and HI students could do well in magnet programs, but are not in the programs  - without showing any proof that such students are even interested in these programs.

But scores of Asian and White students are denied admission because they score a point less than than the selected candidates in the admissions test. Expand the programs because there are many more students who deserve to be there - based on their academic performance.

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