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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Check out Table B4 for TPMS
2016, 2017,2018 numbers of invited students

White/37/48/53
Asian/67/53/43
Hispanic/<10/15/12

You decide whether "MCPS needs to explain to the AA and Hispanic communities why white students benefited the most from the reform."
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In my experience, white families tend to trust the schools and teachers and are terrified of getting labeled pushy. So if their child complains that school is slow, they just think, “Oh, well, school isn’t fun for anyone.” They see kids of academically focused parents go to the magnets and the soccer field conversation is about how they are these horrible pressure cookers with outrageous homework and how they would never do that and deny their children the fun of childhood. They place emphasis on sports and community. They are used to the system working for them and don’t have any reason to question if it is working for their child. This is in general, of course. But I see it all the time.[b] The global application process is identifying many more white children because the kids are from relatively high SES, have all of those advantages, and are as a result performing well in school... but their parents didn’t apply before[/b]. But once they are accepted, the parents sometimes have a change of heart, go to the open house, and decide to try it. I really think that is a big reason why the accepted white population has soared under the new system.[/quote]

+1 I think I shared this in another of our many threads on the magnets, but I'm a highly educated professional, able to give my kids a lot of enrichment and support, and would likely not have applied under the previous system. Because I'm acutely aware of the ways in which my child might *appear* gifted but really just be lucky enough to have a stable home life, high quality preK, and ongoing enrichment, I would not have assumed my child was "HGC material."

It was only after the InView tests in 2nd that I started to consider it, and then we were in a pilot zone for the elementary level magnet roll out last year.

At any rate, what PP says here rings true for me based on my own experience as a parent, at least with the HGC/CES program. [/quote]

Right. So I will say that I think this isn’t an anti-asian american thing so much as a way of identifying more kids from the entire population. And since Asian Americans were statistically more likely to apply than other groups when applications were primarily parent-driven, it would make sense that they are a lower percentage of accepted students in the new system. So maybe see this not as set up against one group so much as trying to include all groups.[/quote]

If this is true, there is no need of the cohort criterion, the best students will get in anyway. [/quote]

Lemme ask you, if your qualified child did not get into a magnet and was heading to a middle school without any of the enriched classes AT ALL because of lack of cohort, how would you feel then? If you knew other equally qualified kids going to the magnet had a powerful cohort and 2 enriched classes at their home middle school, would you think that was fair to your child or the best way to run a limited placement system?[/quote]

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