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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Every year some parents posts a scam like this to get people to drop out in the hope of increasing their kid's chances.[/quote]

I don't think OP is scamming, but I do think she misunderstands what animates MCPS administrators and therefore overestimates her leverage.

Administrators come under fire when there are massive gaps in outcomes for kids in a school, particularly along race/ethnicity/income lines. So, a school like the one OP is describing, where race and income correlate very closely (UMC white/Asian families in SFHs, working class families of color in MFDs), is going to be a school where the administration is under fire to "close the gap" because the racial gap looks terrible, even if we know that the racial gap is also partially an income gap.

So, keeping that in mind, let's look at a thought experiment.

Let's say there are 75 kids in the grade. Of those, 10 would do well at the CES but only 5 are going to go. 5 of the kids are white/Asian and 5 are Black/Latino. All are great test takers, good study skills, etc.

If all of the white or Asian kids don't participate in the lottery, then the only kids going to the CES are going to be the Black or Latino kids. That's great for them, and great for the CES! It sucks for the elementary school administrator, who just lost the best test-taking kids of color in that entire grade, which is going to make the racial achievement gap look even worse on paper.

So, OP's offer to "keep her kid in the school" doesn't actually align with the incentives for the administrator, and therefore isn't worth much in the way of leverage. [/quote]

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