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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a white family in my neighborhood that brought a lawyer to the table. Her kid was smart, not nearly that high IQ though. 
One meeting with the lawyer and next thing the kid is at the LIV center.

Lawyer up folks. Get your friends together and do it if necessary. Demand transparency and guidelines. This is public school, the public has a say. [/quote]

Any info on who the lawyer was? [/quote]

I'm in.  Are there any lawyers here who would be willing to get this started?[/quote]

If people want to get together and pursue this further, I for one, am up for that. But we need to take it off this group and actually take real action. It isn’t even about our individual children, but about clarity in this whole process! [/quote]

I am a lawyer. But I am not registered in VA. I was given the name of the lawyers that pursued Special Needs rights for FCPS (and how they were/are being restrained.) I may email them and ask if there is some sort of a class suit or quicker action to be taken. If anyone wants to find out, the names I was given was :

Kevin Byrnes
 
https://fhhfirm.com/kevin-byrnes
 
 
Regina Kline
 
https://www.browngold.com/team/gina-kline

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Please keep us posted on their responses.  I do think legal action may be the only recourse.[/quote]

So I did connect with one of the attorneys. They said the problem is that courts or a jury would not view gifted kids as a protected class similar to special ed kids. The immediate judgement would be a bunch of helicopter parents. The only way this would have legs is to say that it unfairly affects a certain ethnicity. For example, if Asian Americans are held to a higher standard and not everyone is viewed objectively despite their race, there is something there. But gifted kids alone is not a protected class. Also, any of this is a long process. [/quote]

The road to proving that it unfairly prejudices Asian Americans is a long road and we should all await judgment by the Supreme Court if it ever takes up the case because SFA will undoubtedly fail to prove the case in Appeals Court.  In the meantime, familiarize yourselves with the 'actual' case that will count a whole heckova lot more than where FCPS's AAP program lands on your individual case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/harvard-admissions-lawsuit.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/28/magazine/affirmative-action-asian-american-harvard.html?module=inline&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock[/quote]

Montgomery County is dealing with a lawsuit from parents for how asian students were being held at higher standards for the middle school magnet program

This is the first thing that came up on google not sure what the current status is

https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-montogomery-county-schools-racial-discrimination-20190422-story.html[/quote]

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