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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a travesty to not include a Black or Hispanic student into the magnet program if they are bright and high achieving.  It's also a travesty to not include a Asian-American or White student into the magnet program if they are bright and high achieving.

[b]What do you do when the seats are limited?  What if there are only 100 seats?  Then you take the top 100 students based on a rigorous test. 
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Well, what about the students who do not have the wherewithal to prep and cannot go to Asian "cram" centers?  Well, good news!   They can certainly go to the George B Thomas Academy -  Saturday School https://www.saturdayschool.org/ to get tutoring and certainly go on Khan Academy.  And even better news - most students do not go to these prep schools to prep and even then they get admitted.

Hooray!!!

Equal opportunity to all!!

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Maybe that's what you would do if you ran a school system, but it's not what MCPS does, or ever did. [/quote]

I'd argue that MCPS does take the top students now. The problem is not all schools are the same. People pay hundreds of thousands more for homes in some pyramids because the shools are so much better and confer a massive advantage. This new criteria simply offsets this advantage and attempts to identify the actual best and brightest within the larger system.[/quote]

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