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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:03 here

We didn’t fill out race box in profile and have Anglo-sounding name. (Most others I have met with this last name are white). But in reality,  DC has been working 2 or 3 grades ahead in most subjects and outperforms kids in top private. [b]Perhaps my child is a unicorn[/b], but I doubt it given the extremely bright, hardworking families  I meet every day. I this area you can fill classrooms with a diverse group of gifted students without lowering standard.

We were thinking of public for economic reasons and naively believed that DC could find bright friends from varying SES backgrounds.  These threads make me very concerned about the mentality of families in  Montgomery County.

Don’t assume until you have all the data. 
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Based on all the testing data in MCPS (and honestly nationally) yes, your child is something of a unicorn.

According to the PARCC results for 8th grade Geometry (reasonable assumption for kids aiming for a magnet) there were:

499 White students that exceeded expectations.
20 AA students that exceeded expectations.
25 Hispanic students that exceeded expectations.
435 Asian students that exceeded expectations.

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These numbers are extremely disappointing. More needs to be done to deepen the bench of highly able urm students who now constitute half the kids in the county[/quote]
Why are the numbers so low for AA and Hispanic students in 8th grade Math?[/quote]

Because "separate but equal" doesn't work. White and Asian American parents in the county are scrambling to segregate themselves to the point of paying enormous housing premiums. So black and Hispanic kids are concentrated in high-poverty, segregated schools. If rich white and Asian American kids still went to these schools, the schools would have after-school robotics and geography bees and advanced math, etc. [/quote]

where do you put the rich blacks and poor whites? In what ratio of races that the URM will perform optimally?   Suppose we don't need to consider the needs of white and asian students and their sole purpose of going to school is to create diversity for others to do better, we still need to figure out the magic number of their percentage. [/quote]

My DC's ES has this fantastic Art-Engineer program run by parents with the support of the school.  It is open to all the students, our school has a sizeable URM but none of them showed up at the information meeting.  The school also has Geo-bee and Spelling bee run by the teachers in the classroom but you hardly see any of the URM students participate.  
In MCPS classroom, all the students, regardless your skin or family's bank accounts, receive the same instruction from the teachers and work on the same homework since many schools do not differentiate students.  Except for situations outside of the school, URM students receive same education in the classroom.   MCPS has done a lot for the FARM students, including the free lunch, breakfast and take-home meal at the end of school day.  There are also Saturday schools that cost $10 for the school year offered at in DCC area. [/quote]

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