All said, the merit hardworking Asian students, with 1200+ denied applicants each admission cycle - largest among all ethnicities, are being discriminated from participating in the expanded 100 seats quota. |
There were ~60 new seats added. Primarily to provide access to other middle schools. Having <1% students from economically disadvantaged families and so few from poor MSs is a disgrace. There is nothing meritorious about being affluent. |
There is nothing meritorious about being poor. |
In the landmark case of Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), the Supreme Court ruled against the city of San Francisco for discriminating against Chinese immigrants in the enforcement of a laundry licensing law. Most of the city's wooden building laundry owners were Asian. The law required laundries in wooden buildings to obtain a permit, which was arbitrarily denied to Chinese-owned laundries while easily granted to others. Yick Wo, a Chinese immigrant, was convicted for operating a laundry without a permit and challenged the law's unequal application. The Supreme Court unanimously held that the law was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, stating that while the law itself may be neutral, its discriminatory enforcement made it unconstitutional. This case marked an important precedent in protecting the rights of minorities against discriminatory government actions. Now, lower math Algebra 1 is the single criteria being used to exclude Asian students, knowing well 1200+ denied Asian students have a higher level Geometry/Alg 2 math. |
Some do not want their kids to go to TJ, while others desperately want to be there... |
why even apply? |
You can afford to buy the test which is merit in some people's book. |
That's completely false and makes 0 sense too. |
From where? |
So that more brilliant, deserving and meritorious Asian-American kids don't get in. It's called Equity. |
More brilliant, deserving than whom? So other race(s) are not brilliant and deserving? I'm Asian, and I think your statment is WRONG! Every race has brilliant & deserving students, not just us - Asian. |
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit: “low-income Asian American students, as well as Asian American students attending middle schools theretofore poorly represented at TJ, saw far more offers of admission to TJ than they had in earlier years.” https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/press-release/federal-appeals-court-upholds-constitutionality-thomas-jefferson-high-school “SCOTUS rejected the argument by the Pacific Legal Foundation, who represents the Coalition for TJ, that the revised admissions criteria — including admitting the top 1.5% of eligible 8th graders from each middle school, eliminating the admissions test and $100 application fee, and considering the socioeconomic status of student applicants — unlawfully put Asian American students at a disadvantage. In fact, the race-blind changes were implemented to correct a biased and unfair admissions process that favored socioeconomically advantaged communities in Fairfax County. After the revisions to the admissions policy went into effect, the percentage of economically disadvantaged students increased from 0.62% to 25.09%, with Asian Americans being the largest racial group benefiting from this increase. The number of Latino applicants increased by 42%, and the number of Black applicants increased by 70%, resulting in more admitted Black and Latino students. “ https://www.advancingjustice-aajc.org/press-release/supreme-court-declines-review-federal-appellate-courts-decision-rejecting-legal |
It’s may not be obvious from above, but aside from 2020 & 2019, there are MORE Asian students at TJ since the admissions change than any other year in the school’s history. So to recap, after the admissions change, there are more Asian students at TJ than all but two prior school years. |
And out of the hundreds of kids per class, there are about 9 fewer Asian students per class than before the change. |
My child and family didn't know enough about it but is interested in stem.The application and tour was enough to help plan a good syllabus at the base school and also give my child some confidence that they could handle hard high school classes and what a good high school stem course load might look like. Once we heard the homework was another 2 hours a night every night plus a 40 minute drive each way there were too many impacts to the daily schedule to make it work for 4 years but it was still a great experience just to apply and we loved the school and have a lot of respect for it. Not Asian and hopefully the space went to some child who really wants to go there. My child got in on merit, all As, honors classes, stem extracurricular. There was no reason not to at least apply. |