Court: TJ's New Admission Policy Does Not Discriminate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Do you have any understanding of what an American high school actually does? Do you think that TJ actually trains engineers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Buildings collapse and planes crash for a variety of reasons (age, poor maintenance, hubris, etc. or because someone was rushing or cheap) not because of low test scores.

Test scores are still required, insomuch as GPA and a math essay question are 2/3 of the admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

This is on a very short list of dumbest takes in DCUM history. And that's saying a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

This is on a very short list of dumbest takes in DCUM history. And that's saying a lot.

Actually, your response is one of the dumbest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Do you have any understanding of what an American high school actually does? Do you think that TJ actually trains engineers?

They have a club putting a satellite in space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Do you have any understanding of what an American high school actually does? Do you think that TJ actually trains engineers?

They have a club putting a satellite in space.

Citation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Do you have any understanding of what an American high school actually does? Do you think that TJ actually trains engineers?

They have a club putting a satellite in space.

https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/features/launch-tjreverb-culmination-seven-year-project-tj-space

Citation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

Do you have any understanding of what an American high school actually does? Do you think that TJ actually trains engineers?

They have a club putting a satellite in space.

Sounds like a really fun club. Designing and building satellites is well-understood and routine. Learning about it and getting some hands-on experience is awesome and is a great opportunity, but not really a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

This is on a very short list of dumbest takes in DCUM history. And that's saying a lot.

Yes, truly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

This is on a very short list of dumbest takes in DCUM history. And that's saying a lot.

Yes, truly.

Definitely a strong argument for that.

[Anonymous]

Looks like Stuyvesant in NYC still has a rigorous test for merit admissions and will leave socially engineered TJ completely in the dust soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting US selection system!

I wonder how a selection system based on standard test score leads to disparate impact? Common sense tells me the problem is either in the standard test or the foundational education of certain minority group. The answer is obvious latter. US needs to solve social economic disparity between racial groups to truly solve this problem.

TJ is a STEM high school aiming to provide advanced science and engineering education, who will build rockets, airplanes, bridge, trains and buildings in the future. Removing test score requirement to TJ and college admission only makes next generation live in a less safe place, where buildings collapse and planes crash, which is already happening.

This is on a very short list of dumbest takes in DCUM history. And that's saying a lot.

Yes, and having tests that people simply buy the answers to seems kind of pointless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Stuyvesant in NYC still has a rigorous test for merit admissions and will leave socially engineered TJ completely in the dust soon.

FCPS used to have something like this for TJ, but was more about whether you could afford to buy the test answers. This mainly kept out the less affluent kids which makes certain parents happy I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh boy, this is really going to piss off all the Annandale Asians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/23/thomas-jefferson-admissions-policy-upheld/

The board had no choice but to rethink the admission criteria since it was gamed by people buying the test answers. They had to do something.

Further, the claims of discrimination by a race-blind process that admits mostly Asians seem unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like Stuyvesant in NYC still has a rigorous test for merit admissions and will leave socially engineered TJ completely in the dust soon.

I think it’s likely that they probably do better than TJ in the near future - on standardized exams. But really, who cares?