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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's laughable that someone would think the magnet program should reflect the demographics of the county. If that's what mcps is after, then those programs should be removed indeed.[/quote]

Why is it laughable? I'm not laughing.[/quote]

Just look at test scores by demographics.  That is the answer[/quote]

http://reportcard.msde.maryland.gov/Entity.aspx?K=15AAAA[/quote]

According to PARCC results, there were ~2400 Black and ~3450 Hispanic students in grade 3 in MCPS 2015 school year. Fewer than 10 students met "level 5: exceeded expectations" in both Math and reading in each group. 
There were ~1600 Asians, 389/185 met in math/reading. ~3500 White, 472/316 met in math/reading. These are the base for the 4th grade HGC. I will be a genius's task to achieve racial-balance in  HGC without hurting the quality of the program.[/quote]

My white kid is at the HGC and got a 4/5. Or maybe a 5/4, I don't remember which. Anyway, not a 5/5. [/quote]

I don't think the previous point was that all the kids in the HGC got 5's, but that the ratio of high achievers in each of the populations is radically different.  The number of White and Hispanic kids are roughly the same, but there are ~30-40 times as many White kids scoring at the top of the PARCC compared to Hispanic kids.  With this kind of distribution, how is is possible to bump up the number of Black and Hispanic kids to match the population percentages and maintain the same standards?[/quote]

[b]But evidently the PARCC scores are not a good measure of --well, let's call it HGC potential.[/b] Given that there are kids who did not score 5/5 on the PARCC test who are in an HGC, and I bet that there are some kids who did score 5/5 in the PARCC tests who are not in an HGC.

Plus, "should the demographics of the HGC be [i]the same as [/i]the demographics of the county as a whole" and "could the demographics of the HGC be [i]more like [/i]the demographics of the county as a whole" are two different questions.

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How many kids in the HGC do you think scored a 1 or 2 on the PARCC?  I'd guess 0.  I'd bet it's a very good, albeit not perfect, measure of HGC potential.  I think everybody should be tested and then the top scoring kids can be offered spots.  I'm not sure that this would necessarily lead to HGC's that look more like the county though. 
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