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This parent coaches being the gatekeepers happens A LOT in Elementary School, exp…Science Olympiad, Math Counts, FLL, CompSci competitions.
Then when the students go to Middle School and try out with the Teacher Coaches…those preferred kids get to check “experience” next to the forms and have a leg up on other kids. 
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Anyone can sign up for AMC8 through FCAG or through any school or program offering the test.  Anyone can sign up for CML as a homeschooler, Math Kangaroo, or mathleague.  Anyone can get a free AoPS account and use alcumus, Mathcounts trainer app, FTW, or any of the forums there.  If Mathcounts and Science Olympiad are handled properly, selection should be competitive and based on performance on a test.  I'm not saying that gatekeeping isn't happening, but a motivated family should be able to work around it.  [/quote]

These points are frequently brought up that [i]anyone[/i] can seek extra supplements if they actually valued education and were motivated to succeed.

The real difficulty we have in Fairfax is that our URM/high-poverty populations come from third-world countries like Central America, eastern Africa, and the Middle-East. They come and live here, but they aren't living in the same world as the assimilated population. We in Fairfax County are very different than, say, Wyoming, where both the rich and poor are mostly white and have similar cultural upbringing and values.

There doesn't even need to be gatekeeping because they aren't trying to get into the gate because they don't even know a gate exists. That's the unfortunate reality that FCPS wants to address.[/quote]

Nope not buying this at all.  What you see today - lots of successful Asian students who come from successful Asian families - is the result of those families having grown up with parents who came here from Asian countries and were poor. They had parents who worked at menial and low income jobs and were often the subject of ridicule and taunts because they spoke poor English and looked different. That was Fairfax county in the 70s/80s. All those parents knew was go to school, work hard, get the best grades, go to the best school, education is the way up. Over time their kids success translated into opportunities and more families saw this and told their kids this was the ticket to a better future.

We keep creating programs to help students and we keep insisting that the problem is their parents job, their background, the achievement gap, the way the tests are worded, minimum wage, not enough wages, the police, and every single other thing and the answer isn't in any of those things. Families and the communities those families live in have to value education so much and value the chance for a better future, that they put education as the biggest and most important value in their everyday life.  The resources are there. The opportunities are there. But to see them and realize them one has to be willing to look for them at the sake of other things like sports, shopping, beauty, recreation, tv, video games, [/quote]

Boom, mic drop! One can't become educated if they do not put much value on education.[/quote]

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