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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the complaints among the Asian American parents are first world problems. When half the kids in your district aren’t fed, aren’t meeting grade level standards, and are adversely impacted by covid, poverty, and unemployment, it’s hard to care about who gets into magnet programs.[/quote]

What are you rambling about?  Asians can be low income.  The county is doing a huge amount with food assistance as are many private organizations and individual schools.  These issues were also pre-covid and funny thing, people like you didn't care or did MCPS.  [/quote]

Actually, MCPS has focused significantly on these issues before covid. And [b]while there are some low-income Asians, no, it’s only a tiny percentage,[/b] compared with the more than half the county’s African American and Hispanic students who are low-income. [/quote]

I'm not a fan of hand-waving away the low-income Asian-Americans in Montgomery County. There are lots of Asian-Americans in Montgomery County who aren't affluent Chinese-Americans in Potomac or affluent Indian-Americans in Clarksburg.[/quote]

Not the PP, but it is exactly those groups (affluent Chinese-Americans in Potomac and Indian-Americans in Clarksburg) that are filing lawsuits and claiming systemic discrimination based on race. That's why we're talking about them. A poor or working class Asian American in Silver Spring or Wheaton is actually going to benefit from a magnet admissions policy that puts some weight on geographic diversity.

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Very few white/asian kids in Silver Spring and Wheaton get in regardless of income.  We don't have the same opportunities.[/quote]

You think white kids need MORE opportunities? How out of touch are you?[/quote]

Yes, many of our smart kids aren't getting any extra enrichment.  It has nothing to do with race and kids testing well but they only take 1-2 kids in each elementary school who are white downcountry.  Same for the lottery magnet programs but then its only 2-3 kids.  We got zero enrichment despite higher scores than many describe on here.[/quote]

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