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[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]
Maybe it's because, through affirmative action, AA are taught at an early age that they can't compete on an even playing field with Whites and Asians.  Low expectations translates into low performance.  When it comes to 1st generation Hispanic immigrants, the education their children receive is so far superior to their home countries that they are perfectly happy with these numbers.[/quote]

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