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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you see the Takoma Park MS Magnet program.  From the website of https://www.edufair.us/

The main beneficiaries were White students gaining the most number of seats via this lottery system - but no one seems to note that: +8.3%, followed by Black: +5.3%, and then Hispanic +2.7%.  With Asian students losing: -14.1%

Was that the outcome MCPS was trying to achieve?  I am not aware of the latest data.

Notably - if you want magnet schools and you live in the wrong neighbhorhood - eg, Bethesda, Potomac type locations geographically - good luck getting your kids to the magnet program - they have to spend a tremendous amount of time commuting - because well naturally that's what MCPC thinks is equitable approach for resource distribution.

Naturally - your taxes should be redistributed too- because that's only fair, reasonable and equitable for Asians/immigrants - as you have obviously had an advantaged up-bringing because you were born rich and privileged when you arrived to this country, and exploited people generationally.

Yep..this is the American dream we all signed-up for - to be discriminated against to advantage other 'minority - majorities' - but in the end result of advantaging Whites.
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I didn't read all of this but I do wish everyone would stop making this *so* important. I graduated both from TPMS and Blair, a long time back. Now my own two kids are in MCPS, about to be in the "pool".
I honestly don't care if they get selected. Why? Because they will be fine if they don't get in. I would have been fine if I hadn't gotten into either school too. Because the important things that are stressed in so many Asian families were already there (hard work, respect, time management, discipline, sacrifice) and would have still been there had I gone to other schools.

And that's the truth - in my day (late 90s), most of my fellow Asian classmates' parents were docs, engineers, and researchers at NIH - it's SUCH a leg up in life to have educated parents. You cannot tell me the reason why they are all for the most part doing well in life was because of [b]Blair [/b] and taking thermodynamics in high school. I imagine, before lottery, it was much the same. Yes, the program and teacher matter, but it most matters to the students who didn't come from homes like mine and who needed the extra encouragement and stimulation. It would be much much better for the school to just take an income based admission process honestly.

Anyway, magnets are not that important. It's the values you create as parents that's important which actually translate to everything that follows. [/quote]

Great..do me a huge - solid - if your kid 'wins the lottery' the please decline...can't believe education and kids futures and the nations future is being made into a gambling game by MCPS![/quote]

Can't believe how hyperbolic everyone on this forum is. [/quote]

So are you fine with MCPS not providing opportunities to equally qualified highly abled students and pick only certain students send them to magnet?[/quote]

Are you two a comedy duo? Which one is the straight man? Which is the stooge?

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