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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:
Check out Table B4 for TPMS 
2016, 2017,2018 numbers of invited students

White/37/48/53 
Asian/67/53/43 
Hispanic/&lt;10/15/12

You decide whether &quot;MCPS needs to explain to the AA and Hispanic communities why white students benefited the most from the reform.&quot;

Wow this is awful. It certainly looks like MCPS staff actually didn't like that the magnet wasn't majority white so they shifted the criteria to put white students back on top. This is a textbook example of institutional racism favoring white students. They just disguised it in their rhetoric and by admitting 2 more hispanic students.

In order to achieve this &quot;desired&quot; balance of more white students than asian students and very few additional hispanic/AA students MCPS had to lower the standards and pull in the cohort geographic proxy so the magnets no longer have the strongest students. This also feeds into white privilege by making it easier for the lower scoring white kids to succeed in the program and be on top. Very shameful![/quote]

[quote]Your anger is overshadowing your sense of logic. You think MCPS has an institutional mandate to improve outcomes for white kids?! This entire change has been about closing the achievement gap for low/income, AA, and Hispanic kids. This is their mandate right now, as it absolutely should be in a county as diverse as ours. If you think they completely changed the admissions process so they could get 5 more white kids, you are wearing a tinfoil hat. The data show they got a lot more FARMS kids and a lot more AA kids. And 5 more white kids.[/quote]

Institutional racism doesn't come from public mandates. It comes from people within a system who operate on racial biases .They make decisions and put in place processes that favor whites over other races. This is EXACTLY an example of this. The staff within MCPS orchestrated a process that had the outcome of putting whites back on top at the expense of Asians who are a minority. Racism against asians is prevalent in college admissions and the workforce because as a minority group they represent a threat to whites being on top.

10 more AA is great but that doesn't disguise the fact they also increased whites by much more. In fact[b] if you look at the three year trend whites keep going up, Asians keep going down [/b]and the hispanic number went down too. (Since you didn't post all 3 years for AAs I don't know what that trend it but I hope its going up not down.)[/quote]

Only the last numbers - the 2018 numbers - are from the new selection process.  The 2016 and 2017 numbers used the same old application-based selection process.  So the difference between the 2016 and 2017 numbers is variation [b]within the same selection process[/b].  It is not a "three year trend" attributable to the new process.  It is just as likely if not more likely to be a statistical anomaly within the data for the prior admission process.  [/quote]

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