
You may be totally right, but the ‘you ought to be ashamed of yourself’ attitude definitely doesn’t help your argument. |
That would be a real challenge for the race-blind selection process where they don't know an applicant's race. |
Take away from FCPS Board's actions to an Asian American student applicant: "We don't want to know how hard you studied Math, English, and Science in middle school. Hence, you will not be given a STEM evaluation test. However, your evaluation will be based on your skin color, and there are already too many of your kind at TJ."
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Liar |
Yes, the race-blind selection negates these claims as having any basis in reality. |
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Yep |
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/supreme-court-asked-to-weigh-in-on-prestigious-virginia-schools-allegedly-race-conscious-admissions-policies/ In 2020, the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., overhauled its admission standards following the murder of George Floyd. Among the policies enacted at the time were the removal of standardized entry tests and the allocation of admissions evenly across the system’s feeder schools, rather than taking the top applicants across the entire district. Consequently, Asian-American student enrollment nosedived from 73 percent to 54 percent the first year the changes went into effect while Hispanic and black representation grew exponentially. |
Incredibly, a race-blind process is overwhelming in selecting Asian students for TJ. As a group, they seem to be doing better than any other group in terms of TJ selection. Just don't see the problem here. |
It's similar to saying that when UVA went co-ed, the number of male students declined, which indicates gender bias. The process was so overwhelming skewed towards Asians that any change however fair would result in a decrease. |
I'm glad that students throughout the county now have a shot at these opportunities, not just those from wealthy schools. I even read the group whose enrollment increased the most because of these changes were low-income Asians. |
What was the point of quoting this article? It’s not even accurate—the allocation of admissions are not spread evenly across the feeder schools. Each feeder school is guaranteed a number of seats equal to 1.5 percent of its 8th grade population, but there are still a large number of seats that are open to the top qualifying students based on the selection criteria, regardless of which school they attend. In fact, one of the changes in the new admissions process was to increase the total number of seats, to help compensate for the fact that a subset of seats would be allocated to each middle school. |
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This constitutes racial oppression of asian american students bring their number. Unfortunately, some idiots here attempt to rationalize by citing asian american are still more than half so the racial suppression from 73% to 54% is justified, which is as racist as it would be to forcibly exclude a few African Americans from the NBA and justifying it by claiming they are still the majority. Going after strength of any particular race is racist, and constitutes racial oppression, whether it is blacks in NBA or asian americans at TJ. No more racial attacks by evil forces in authoritative positions. |
If a decrease in enrollment constitutes oppression, returning to 74% would constitute racial oppression (whatever that means) of other groups. |