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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]well. kids may as well learn about affirmative action over merit earlier than later. it's the liberal way. [/quote]

Do you have any evidence to support this claim about affirmative action or is this just a case of sour grapes?[/quote]

Evidence is everywhere if you had a reason to pay attention. In the last year or so, most major newspaper had one or more sympathetic piece on Asian American's students' fight against college admission discrimination. Here is one example.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-affirmative-action-and-asian-americans

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[b]There is not one villainous Man or System that controls all college admissions and MCPS magnet tests.[/b] An article about college admissions decisions has nothing to do with MCPS magnet admissions procedures.[/quote]

That is just it. It is not one man or one college or one public school system. Asian American students and parents felt discriminated in college admission and now they felt discriminated in magnet school admission. Just because they are high achieving as a cohort? So they have to endure all kinds of stereotype? Just because they "over represented" their share of population. Previous posters have demonstrated they are disproportionately represented in the NMSF, in all kinds of academic competition, in PARCC and AP 5s.  [b] It seems only natural that they should be over represented in the county's academic programs[/b]. [/quote]
Exactly.  It's statistics.

This group is damned if they do and damned if they don't.   They work hard and put in a lot of effort, only to be told they did too well, so they will be penalized for their too much efforts.[/quote]

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