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Any bets on how long it will take for the first poster on DCUM to provide the alternate explanation that MCPS put a thumb on the scale, preferentially admitting Hispanic/Latino and FARMS students who are unqualified (by definition) over qualified DCUM-demographic students?[/quote]

What they did wasn't that simple. The bias was in the selection or identification pool. IMO, it didn't work as well as they hoped. Those look like very large percentage increases but that's only because the number of Hispanic/Latino or FARMS kids were virtually not represented at all in the HGCs. I would have thought that because they were being identified in such higher numbers that even more would have qualified but they did not. That implies the problem is NOT where they thought it was which is that many Hispanic or FARMS families didn't know about the program or didn't have time to apply or didn't think their child would get in, etc. because they fixed that problem through a lot of time and expense and they did not get the huge bump in numbers you might have expected if that were the only or even the main issue.[/quote]

Hypothesis: qualified Hispanic/Latino and FARMS kids aren't getting into the program because their parents aren't applying.
Pilot solution: have teachers recommend kids for the program.
Result: the number of Hispanic/Latino and FARMS kids who applied went way up, and the number of Hispanic/Latino and FARMS kids who got admitted also went way up.
Your interpretation of the result: the pilot solution wasn't very effective.

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