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MCPS refused to release the MS magnet test data on the admirred and rejected students after multiple requests.  Everyone is speculating but they they got no data to support their claim.   MCPS owns the data and has total control over your child’s school life;  it can be cc2.0 or magnet admission. 
Unless MCPS touches the UMC and MC white students’ benefit, they will not face real resistance.  UMC familes can affort private schools and can bring a lawsuit.
However, Asian families, most of them are first generation of immigrants, cannot afford private schools in this area and 100% depend on public school.  It is daunting task to navigate the school system which is totally different from their own school experience.  When they saw their child’s education opportunity is robbed by MCPS under the name of diversity, an angry reaction is the least you can expect.  Fortunately, for MCPS, the angry voice from Asian parents may be the only reaction from Asian parents. The affected Asian parents will not bring a lawsuit to MCPS, because they cannot afford, cannot find a lawyer to take their case, or decided to let it go because their own child already missed the chance and need to move on.

Dear PP, you are right, there will be no lawsuit from Asian parents!  [/quote]

Asian-heritage families who live in Potomac can't afford a lawyer? [/quote]

Most of Asian immegtant families in Potomac or North Potomac are working families with two professional jobs.  After paying for the $500-900K houses, mortgage, child care, Music/Sport/enrichment classes for kids cost them most of the income after tax and retiremen saving.  $45,000 cash for a private school each year,?  It is beyond most of the Asian families. [/quote]

Consider then the low income AA, African, or Latinx family downcounty with a gifted child who is getting Magnet as their only opportunity. [/quote]

There is no evidence that MCPS has overlooked URM kids for gt selection previously. When my DC was in ES, he said [b]the teacher told the kids who were advanced to take the test for HGC.  [/b]He was my first child in MCPS and in the US, I never heard anything about HGC in MCPS before he brought home the application.  That was decade ago. 
In MCPS  most teachers have been happy to identify URM gift students in their classes and nurture their talent. [/quote]

To you simply telling a handpicked group of 5th graders they should take a test might seem equal to screening all kids in 5th grade, but experts in gifted education disagreed.[/quote]

Or maybe it using the limited resources on kids with the facilities AND resources to do something with it. No point handing out parachutes to kids who will never step on a plane. Do kids who could never ever afford college need college prep? [/quote]

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