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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The kids we know who got in to the MS magnets from those high FARMS schools are mostly white and they are from middle class or upper middle class families.[/quote]

You know upper middle class white kids being admitted to middle school magnets from schools like Leleck Elementary, which has a 95% farms rate?

Because those are the schools that are in the highest farms bracket, schools were there are almost no kids who don't receive free and reduced lunch.[/quote]

...or Watkins Mill ES, which has so few white kids that they don't even show up in the school demographic count?

I'd really encourage you to look at the list of schools deemed "high FARMS" because it is much shorter than you seem to think it is. Actually mixed income schools that might have some middle class kids are in other brackets, which are much larger than the "high FARMS" bracket. [/quote]

Not from that school because those kids would go to Clemente and King rather than the other MS magnets but the several kids that are coming from clusters like Odessa Shannon do not appear to be FARMS. Using Odsessa Shannon as an example and not referring to specific kids from specific schools.[/quote]

But Odessa Shannon is a middle school, and the "brackets" are by elementary school feeder. Only one of the three elementary schools that feeds into Odessa Shannon is "high FARMS" and the other two are not. That school (Kemp Mill) is almost 90 percent FARMS and fewer than 5 percent of the kids in the school are white.

So, again, it is hard to imagine you know several kids coming out of a designated high FARMS school that are white and upper middle class, as you claim.

Just admit you were wrong. It's fine. [/quote]

It sounds like you don't have a kids at a magnet because if you did you'd know it's true. The middle school was just an example because no one wants to name and out specific elementary school students. [/quote]

I do have kids at a magnet, one admitted pre-lottery and one after. I also had some visibility on who from my child's (moderate high FARMS) school was admitted, and the issue wasn't that only "UMC white kids" got in, it's that "UMC white kids" were the only ones that accepted the slots. Working class kids and kids of color were way less likely to accept the slot, which is something I'd be curious for MCPS to look at. Why are these kids turning down magnet MS slots? [/quote]

I have noticed the same thing.  It is frustrating that MCPS keeps messing with the entry criteria when that’s clearly not the main barrier to a diverse magnet.  I love their goal but they aren’t pushing the right levers to achieve it.  [/quote]

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