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[quote]The PP who is "99% sure" they know this school is incorrect, because we do NOT have ELC.[/quote]

Check the list here: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/enriched/programs/elc.aspx

[quote]That said, it absolutely does NOT follow that all of the people who don't pull themselves from the pool would automatically get in, because others have pulled themselves. That's not how this works. Unless you think it's better simply to have fewer white and Asian American kids, in order to maintain a smaller disparity? Oh, yes, very healthy.[/quote]

MCPS has clearly said they are trying to balance admissions to have representation from every school. So somebody's kid is going to go. You can't just abstain from sending any kids from a certain school, because MCPS will keep moving along the list until they find someone to say yes.

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Has everyone missed that my kid is a POC? [/quote]

This is a rhetorical slight of hand that I hate on DCUM. You have very clearly shown that you know the language of social and educational justice, so you know that in this very specific case, we need to talk about Black and Latine kids separately from white and Asian American kids. But here you default to POC (a bigger umbrella that includes Asian Americans) because you want the rhetorical shield. If your child was Black of Latine you would have said so, and if you were a POC, you would have said so already. So you KNOW that we need to talk about Asian American and biracial Asian American kids separately from Black and Latine kids here, for a whole laundry list of reasons having to do with whether that group is under-represented in the magnet programs.

Your intentions are obviously good, and I commend you for that, but don't treat marginalization like a coat you can take on and off, please. [/quote]

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