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I think you are the same poster who deliberately tries to make it a race question vs. ability question. Seriously, if you think that your community is not applying to the program then get the word out to your community. You obviously have the time to troll here, maybe you can use that energy to actually be useful.  Otherwise all I have heard is that URMs need a lot of handholding, and want to get into rigorous magnet programs based on their "non-academic" talents.

If there were unlimited seats available (like it is to go to a regular schools) in the magnet programs - the most underperforming groups would still be AA and HI.  If you want to prove people wrong then ask these students to work hard, not fight for freebies.  This is a political stunt.

Why not talk about sports?  Lets raise the bar of who can play sports in our schools.  Anyone with less than 3.5 GPA should not be allowed to participate in sports in school.   My kid is not allowed to play in sports because he does not have the physical advantages other kids have.  Does that mean he will not grow as an athlete if he is on the school basketball team? He needs to be picked up for his non-athletic talents like participating in hackathons!

The attempt to scuttle the whole magnet program is amazing.  Its just reeks of jealousy and desperation. People want to finish this program because their kid cannot compete and get in.  If it costs MCPS an additional $40 dollars per child for these programs, let the parents pay the county this amount.

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I think that you're the poster who likes to refer to urms instead of people.

-PP who has had two kids in the HGC and therefore knows first-hand how much the HGC and the HGC application process are stacked against poor and out-of-the-know parents[/quote]

I am an ORM whose children have to work doubly hard in school, college and workplace. If my kids were eligible for affirmative action because I am a minority then I would have had no issues. However, my kids have no benefits because we are ORM or  HPM ( High-Performing-Minority).  Now if you do not like URM then you would like LPM even less, I am guessing.

If we were talking about people and individuals then we would concentrate on merit and performance. In such a case, there would be no need to have labels like URM or ORM.  Since we are talking about quota and different criteria for different GROUPS, then these labels are the right way to refer to this demographic.

Why would giving the magnet test to every eligible student not be a solution? Why would MCPS not reveal the test results of all the candidates? Why are low performing students not given early intervention and extra tutoring?  - Probably because these measures do not work in a culture of easy handouts and disinterested parents and students.

I am not well off, and I am not-in-the-know, but I paid attention when MCPS sent information about these programs and I educated myself. If the issue is that MCPS is not sending this message using the communication methods prefered by URM - a personal visit, a phone call, text, facebook, tweet, whatever -then it is an issue with MCPS.

- ORM whose 3 kids are in magnet programs, and who have watched stellar students turned down because of lack of space. All of these students who did not get in were Asians/Whites.  [/quote]

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