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Shutting down the centers would also support social emotional learning. Its very harmful to minority or lower performing children to see children who look different from them always walking off to the gifted classes. It doesn't matter that everyone had equal opportunity to take the test and admittance was by score. To a kid its noticeable that the white and asian kids go to one set of classes and they go to another one in their own school. No its not fair to the white and asian kids but they have other advantages in life if they are already smart enough to get into a center or magnet. [/quote]

This is the kind of zero-sum thinking many parents try to discourage in their children.  It is ugly.[/quote]

Yes, it is ugly. But the ugliness is on the part of the PP, for implying that [b]all children have an equal opportunity to get into the HGC, [/b]it's just that the black and Hispanic kids are dumber, and that Starr's goal is to make black and Hispanic kids feel better about themselves by disadvantaging white and Asian kids.[/quote]

Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcome.  All children have the same opportunity.[/quote]

Come on people. All kids are equal and the same!  That's why they all get Ps and take the same narrow band of subjects now. Everybody is the same, I mean equal.  MCPS has redefined equal to main same. Duh.  Just all pass the same low bar and, viola, you are the same![/quote]

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