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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But they didn't do the Blair scores without just the magnet, they did the Blair score without the magnets or the Black and latino kids. But Blair is a mostly poor and minority school so I am not sure what that cherry picked sat tells us. They also left off the schools that did better on that stat so it just looks like Kool Aid to these eyes.[/quote]

It is also very misleading to cherry pick out the top 5% of Blair and compare it to much larger percentages for the other schools. Since the link didn't provide the raw scores and whether someone was in the magnet, the poster basically made up numbers to come up with her answer for Blair without the magnet. The SAT poster is basically full of BS.

The other issue regarding the AP tests for Kennedy is that Kennedy has no magnet program so it doesn't get the pass rates for magnet kids. Kennedy also does a good job in encouraging kids who might not pass the exam but have potential and solid grades to take an AP course which isn't a bad thing. If MCPS required more exams in earlier years the more disadvantaged kids would have more experience with this type of test so I do think if MCPS ever gets it act together that those pass rates could be pulled up. [/quote]

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