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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]

It depends on how you define "affluent"...

In my west-county/upcounty anecdotal experience, most of the immigrant parents of children in the application magnet programs come from the more affluent parts of society in their countries of origin, have college degrees (either from their country of origin or from the colleges they came to the US to attend), and work in professional jobs in the US.[/quote]

At least in my book if you can afford to drop $10k on prep classes to ensure your kid gets the scores necessary to appear gifted and access these limited opportunities then you're affluent.[/quote]

Can we just set the "prepping" issue to the side, please? It's a vague word that does more harm than good and encompasses all sorts of activities, from Russian School of Math to STEM classes to robotics club, to Outschool book clubs. [/quote]
Wokes can't drop the prepping issue.  They have to keep pretending that this is Lake Wobegon and all children are above average and that the only thing keeping our poor minorities is $.[/quote]

Maybe it's because the privileged class will do anything to cling to their unfair advantages.[/quote]

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