Why does that matter? Does it occur to you that not every bright child has parents with the money or educational background to put their kids in a position to take math classes earlier than many of their peers? This is a public school. It is there for every child who will benefit from it. Granted there aren’t enough spaces for every child in the area who can benefit from it, but it is important that kids from all kinds of financial and educational backgrounds have the opportunity. Kids can’t choose their parents and family circumstances and shouldn’t suffer because their parents have less money or education than others. |
all kinds of financial and educational backgrounds? The current non-merit process is admitting 83.64% economically advantaged "wealthy" kids and just 16.36% economically disadvantaged. The worst part of this is more than half fail to meet TJ rigor, and one third need remedial from first month itself. Even more unacceptable is students are being selected based on their skin color. |
Who said the change was exclusively made for economically disadvantaged? This admissions change was to racially balance the student body. |
Go look up what the percentage of students from lower income families was under the old admissions process. Hint: it was much lower than 16.36%. Also, you should realize that there are many different ways of determining “merit.” Just because you don’t like the current process that involves writing ability doesn’t mean that merit is not involved. |
That's false. Selection is a race blind. The changes were made in accordance with best practices in gifted education by using local norms and selecting the top students from each school. Previously students were mostly limited to a few wealthy feeders. |
Class of 2024 had 0.6% economically disadvantaged students admitted. Less than 1% of that entire class. |
And that was fairly typical. Prior to the changes to the admissions process, TJ was essentially closed to economically disadvantaged and non-center students. |
It's an important distinction that admission is no longer limited to a handful of wealthy feeder schools. |
racist is sneaking in favorite words |
racist |
shame on school board for leaning on economically disadvantaged to engage in racial politics. |
You can give them a spot but you can't make them smart. In fact TJ doesn't make anyone smart who isn't already so. |
Liar. You are the one associating wealthy feeders to race. |
racist doesn't like it when untouchables attend their wealthy feeders |
Is this for real? Why would they reject high math qualified applicants in favor of lower math applicants? |