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[quote=Anonymous][quote][quote]What I also find patronizing is this stereotype that magnet kids are all children of immigrants, which is actually quite rare, most are the children of affluent families since these programs are effectively limited to only those who can afford expensive prep.
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NP. Our experience in the magnets for the past few years, at middle magnet and regional CES, is that there is a very significant immigrant population attending. Most kids have at least one parent who is a first generation immigrant. They have families who value education as a path to stability and prosperity, and most are definitely not affluent.[/quote]

This is anecdata, but my experience is both. Yes, a lot of kids at my child's regional CES and MS magnets have been the children of immigrants, but they were largely MC/UMC immigrants. These weren't kids whose parents own a bodega, or a dry-cleaning shop, or work as landscapers. Their parents are highly educted either back home or here in the United States, and work in a variety of white collar fields.

In addition, the large number of kids whose parents were born abroad in the magnets is not because immigrants are so special and value education more than native-born Americans. MCPS has the highest foreign-born population in the region, and while the last firm count was in 2015 (1/3 of residents were foreign-born), all trends suggest the number is closer to 50 percent now. So, yes, there are a lot of children of immigrants in the magnets. There are also a lot of children of immigrants outside the magnet. There are just a lot of children of immigrants in MCPS.

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