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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]That would be illegal. [/quote]

Yes it is and MCPS is going to have its ass handed to it in court. MCPS is just like Trump and his public admissions of collusion and then adamant denials. They are on record that in order to rebalance the racial and socio economic make up of the magnet programs they not only adopted universal testing but changed the admissions criteria lowering it to above 90% and blocking admission for students from a small set of schools that happen to be the ones with a majority or close to majority Asian American population. MCPS was disturbed that Asian American were represented in magnets at over twice their rate as a % of the general population.

Personally, I would be OK with lowering of the bar to 90% - still seems high enough to me to be able to perform- if this is what is needed to identify enough lower SES minority students. The students that don't deserve to be there over the Asian American students who scored high 90s though are the UMC/MC white students who scored under high 90s. MCPS did not want to take away white seats from DCC residents and they wanted to take away seats from Asian students in high performing districts.

This type of behavior really makes the magnets a liability not an asset. MCPS should start early programs that identify lower SES with high potential and offer intensive extra curriculum resources to these students. Many may have the potential to score high but they need more than 2.0 in the classroom all day. MCPS should be looking at increasing Magnet spots so that any child scoring in the mid to high 90s gains entrance.

MCPS needs to stop worrying about who moves where and simply focus on educating the top, middle and bottom performers. [/quote]

Or you need to realize pulling out parent driven applications, expanding the pool, and changing the test meant certain students were no longer the best qualified on.....merit!!!   Hey did you read the recent Economist article on how racist the culture is in one really large Asian country?[/quote]

what?

[b]Look MCPS should just come out and say point blank.  If you are at a W school your kid is going to be fine.  They don't need to be in a magnet.  W schools are defacto magnets already due to high SES[/b][/quote]

Wait! Wasn't the goal to integrate schools? They wanted the affluent high performing  kid from W schools to come to the ghetto schools and  it had nothing to do with meeting the needs of high ability students.  That was the premise of the "pull integration" in the Metis report.  The magnets were not put in these schools to meet the needs of high achieving students of any race, it was plain and simple  integration, and the lure to pull these affluent (mainly White and Asian students) was the highly competitive magnet programs and a rigorous curriculum. .

If the magnets are diluting the criteria for admissions to take in any tom, dick and harry of the right shade,  (and excluding highest performing students from W schools), then frankly there remains no reason for W school students to come to the magnet schools. Without the extremely high performing cohort in the magnet schools, these magnet schools are just ghetto schools with a ton of problems and low performing kids.

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You post shows incredible ignorance and bigotry.[/quote]

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