The best part is "several posters" - everyone knows it's just you by your crazy writing style.

And we've answered your stupid question several times.The real question, is why can't you get the answer through your head? As you've been told by other posters besides me, there are so many whites in MoCo, way more than there are Asians, it's ridiculous to postulate some white "old guard" who is out do away with advancement for .... their own kids???? It's incredible you can't understand this simple point.

Is there a widening achievement and performance gap between Asian Americans and European Americans (whites) in Montgomery County and in MCPS?

The College Board, like MCPS leadership, is made up of the old generation elite (old guard) and the education estabilshment that are watching a new generation of high performers that are not their own children but are children of recent immigrants. Imagine the College Board sanctioning prep for the SAT reasoning and aptitude test (heresy)?

Imagine yet the College Board rewarding the elite test prep payers (old guard) with a "special SAT exam session" in the summer? Note, others prepping in the summer can't take the test until the fall with course work, college applications and extracurriculars in the mix.

Guess what, thrifty recent immigrant children do not shell out five grand ($5,000) for a 3 week summer prep capped off with the opportunity to take the SAT immediately afterward at peak prep mode. The old establishment guard does this.

An in a "TIA" moment (blind spot) the College Board gives this group an advantage. Why? For precisely the same reason the old guard here in MCPS wants to block the advancement of these new high flying performers by eliminating pathways to give their own children an advantage and "close" the gap. This strategy is "quietly" permeating all phases of education in America. The children of the educational leadership and old guard are no longer the high performers and hence it's time to change policy and the rules (while they are still in charge).

The College Board blundered and they were called out. MCPS, too, has blundered and they are being called out. Who benefits and stands to gain the most from from these attempted policy changes? Who is the worse off because of these attempted policy changes?


http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/p...012/06/06/gJQAeLZpIV_blog.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-...d-sat-20120605,0,5866106.story
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http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx

Anonymous wrote:

Looks like everybody's decided you're nuts, and they've taken their toys and gone home.

You've been told your explanation makes no sense, as a rationale for doing away with math acceleration, because numerically there are still more white children than Asian, so this would be self-defeating for what you erroneously call the "old guard." You've also been told there's a simple explanation: testing forces schools to focus on the low and middle-achieving kids.

Occam's Razor: if there are several possible explanations, choose the simplest one. Not the conspiracy theory.

Oh really, or is the truth but a sore painful admission. for you. Instead, twist, squirm and waffle.

Is there a widening achievement and performance gap between Asian Americans and European Americans (whites) in Montgomery County and in MCPS?

A straightforward and simple question you obviously can't bring yourself to answer. If you can muster the courage to answer this question it will go along way to your understanding of what several posters have alluded to regarding MCPS policy banning advancement of students already mastering math (no more pathways) and the recent College Board public relations fiasco.

Looks like everybody's decided you're nuts, and they've taken their toys and gone home.

You've been told your explanation makes no sense, as a rationale for doing away with math acceleration, because numerically there are still more white children than Asian, so this would be self-defeating for what you erroneously call the "old guard." You've also been told there's a simple explanation: testing forces schools to focus on the low and middle-achieving kids.

Occam's Razor: if there are several possible explanations, choose the simplest one. Not the conspiracy theory.

Is there a widening achievement and performance gap between Asian Americans and European Americans (whites) in Montgomery County and in MCPS?

Is there a widening achievement and performance gap between Asian Americans and European Americans (whites) in Montgomery County and in MCPS?

Does anyone have any data here -- including the squirming and the waffling?[code]

With all this squirming and waffling the truth must be nearby; which gets to underlying thesis of the raging angst perturbing the fading old leadership guard (e.g., College Board blunder. MCPS decision to forbid and prevent high performers moving forward in math, the issues with demographics in the U of California system, the law suits in the Ivy league --Princeton and Harvard)