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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the pp from 8 a.m.  I think I was partly responding to this post which I disagree with. [/quote]

I am the PP who wrote about subjective HGC selection to achieve SES, racial and geneder balance. Another PP talked about the higher %age of Asian and White kids in Drew HGC. I am not that PP.

What I was talking about is not about the balance in the school hosting the HGC program. It is more of a balance within the highly selective HGC and magnet programs. The reason behind this is the question of "achievement gap" Dr. Starr points out. In a school system where it is impossible to eradicate the achievement gap (external factor contributes to it than the school system itself), "the power to be" try to decrese the achievement gap (so that they do not have to answer difficult question) by having subjective selection, not open to public scrutiny and not having an objective cutoff. I have personally talked to AEI staff and heard from other parents who have been to information sessions for HGC and magnet school application and found this to be true.

If you do not beleive me, call AEI and ask for real cutoff points (like atleast 96th %tile in math, 95th %tile in verbal, rating 3/5 in teacher reco, grade A in math, reading and writing in 2nd grade instructed above grade level etc.). They do not have any. They do case-to-case selection. That means some qualified students cannot get in even though they might be better in terms of academic achievements than others that get in. The kids who get rejected (so that the school system can accomodate others) suffer the most due to lack of appropriate education in local school. Until we have enough slots in HGC and magnet programs or have equivalent programs available in local schools, the school system harms some kids to help some others and cannot be called objective or fair.[/quote]

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