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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS makes the hypocrisy worse by actively trying to entice wealthier white people into schools through magnet and other programs AND not providing appropriate special education for kids with learning disabilities.

The magnet, honors and AP courses are all filled with UMC kids and a small handful of lower income kids. The UMC parents in these schools push hard to make sure that their kids get into these classes. Many are far from geniuses or even smart. They have the advantage of parents with resources and the ability to push.

Many UMC and URM kids have learning disabilities but UMC parents will force MCPS to do something. If you have insurance to pay for outside testing, enough education to understand your child's rights, and the inclination to fight you can make sure that your ADHD, dyslexic, language or math challenged child gets the intervention he or she needs in the early years. [b]The low income kids don't have anyone fighting for them and MCPS ignores them.[/b]

I'm sure that there are many more low income kids who COULD have been qualified for those classes if their parents had advocated and pushed for them to be in the classes and had the resources to push MCPS to accommodate learning disabilities. [/quote]
Uh.. no.. MCPS just changed admittance to CES and MS mangets to look at "peer cohort" such that[b] many high achievers from the wealthier schools didn't get i[/b]n.

How should MCPS determine if a low income child has a LD?  How can MCPS force the parents of low income kids to get their kids tested even if the testing is free?[/quote]
But wait, I thought people sent their kids to wealthier schools so that they would have a peer cohort of high achieving students. I thought the problem with diverse schools was that there won't be the high achieving cohort that exists at wealthy schools. So if there are all these superstar achievers at wealthy schools, and people are paying a fortune to live near them and not the poors, what does it matter whether their kids get into magnets?
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Exactly.[/quote]

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