Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system after S.F. school board vote

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It will be a wonderful year next year - incompetent racist fairfax school board members will be thrown out on their asses and the SCOTUS will rule and announce to end affirmative action case soon after that

Right - the Supreme Court do not need Robert's vote to end AA with Harvard case.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. The vast majority of kids at the wealthy schools were investing 10 to 20K the in prep classes where they were given the answers to the test used to decide admissions. This made it impossible for anyone who didn't have the cash to spend on these classes to compete and kept out all but the wealthy. This was so common that one center alone posted the names of their students who were admitted which accounted for 30% of the entering class that year.

Yes, the racists hate that poor kids now have a shot at TJ. They want to keep it the domain of the rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. The vast majority of kids at the wealthy schools were investing 10 to 20K the in prep classes where they were given the answers to the test used to decide admissions. This made it impossible for anyone who didn't have the cash to spend on these classes to compete and kept out all but the wealthy. This was so common that one center alone posted the names of their students who were admitted which accounted for 30% of the entering class that year.

Yes, the racists hate that poor kids now have a shot at TJ. They want to keep it the domain of the rich.

The racists are the people looking for a pretext to make sure the number of Asian kids at TJ is effectively capped. They hate merit, and don't even like TJ, so the best they could do is make it an alternative to the crappy IB schools that they stuck in the poorer areas and were too lazy to fix. They'll call that "equity" and ignore the fact that most kids in those districts are still be stuck in garbage schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

if it’s high qualified, the math4 class won’t receive the email from their teacher to persuade them going back to the base school.
For those who are really qualified and got accepted, it’s not bad that they now have less competitive classmates. Life in TJ will become easier for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.

That's not true. The vast majority of kids at the wealthy schools were investing 10 to 20K the in prep classes where they were given the answers to the test used to decide admissions. This made it impossible for anyone who didn't have the cash to spend on these classes to compete and kept out all but the wealthy. This was so common that one center alone posted the names of their students who were admitted which accounted for 30% of the entering class that year.

Yes, the racists hate that poor kids now have a shot at TJ. They want to keep it the domain of the rich.

Reading this thread makes that perfectly clear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

if it’s high qualified, the math4 class won’t receive the email from their teacher to persuade them going back to the base school.
For those who are really qualified and got accepted, it’s not bad that they now have less competitive classmates. Life in TJ will become easier for them.

I heard it was the exact opposite because this latest crop of students were able to get in without years of extracurricular prep classes but through their inherent talent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

if it’s high qualified, the math4 class won’t receive the email from their teacher to persuade them going back to the base school.
For those who are really qualified and got accepted, it’s not bad that they now have less competitive classmates. Life in TJ will become easier for them.

Another proof is the number of students who got AIME. Previously, TJ had about 20 students qualified for AIME. This year there are only 8. 12 are in other schools. It’s no doubt that TJ has less top students than before, with this new admission policy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

if it’s high qualified, the math4 class won’t receive the email from their teacher to persuade them going back to the base school.
For those who are really qualified and got accepted, it’s not bad that they now have less competitive classmates. Life in TJ will become easier for them.

Another proof is the number of students who got AIME. Previously, TJ had about 20 students qualified for AIME. This year there are only 8. 12 are in other schools. It’s no doubt that TJ has less top students than before, with this new admission policy.

You got it backwards It was a previously in 12 this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out!

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now.

if it’s high qualified, the math4 class won’t receive the email from their teacher to persuade them going back to the base school.
For those who are really qualified and got accepted, it’s not bad that they now have less competitive classmates. Life in TJ will become easier for them.

I heard it was the exact opposite because this latest crop of students were able to get in without years of extracurricular prep classes but through their inherent talent.

Their “inherent talent” that the bumbling Gatehouse employees who can’t even tie their own shoes somehow magically identify based on random essays? LOL.

[Anonymous]

Here's the facts. Elite schools can sniff out folks that are test prep machines. That's why the results are the way they are. For the last time this isn't Asia, schools don't take folks with the highest scores, they look at a variety of factors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's the facts. Elite schools can sniff out folks that are test prep machines. That's why the results are the way they are. For the last time this isn't Asia, schools don't take folks with the highest scores, they look at a variety of factors.

TJ never did. Test score was only one of many different factors. That was why TJ was referred to as Thomas Jefferson High School for Writing & Foreign Language by students.

[Anonymous]

The admissions process at TJ may not have been fool proof in the past but it functioned reasonably well. Now it’s just a hash. Imagine a process whose goal isn’t to admit the best qualified kids but just to keep low-brow politicians like Karen Keys Gamarra and Karen Corbett Sanders off your backs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The admissions process at TJ may not have been fool proof in the past but it functioned reasonably well. Now it’s just a hash. Imagine a process whose goal isn’t to admit the best qualified kids but just to keep low-brow politicians like Karen Keys Gamarra and Karen Corbett Sanders off your backs.

Sure, if you are okay with allowing the wealthy to game admission and excluding the poor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The admissions process at TJ may not have been fool proof in the past but it functioned reasonably well. Now it’s just a hash. Imagine a process whose goal isn’t to admit the best qualified kids but just to keep low-brow politicians like Karen Keys Gamarra and Karen Corbett Sanders off your backs.

Sure, if you are okay with allowing the wealthy to game admission and excluding the poor.

There aren't many wealthy students at TJ - most are middle class except some wealthy white students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The admissions process at TJ may not have been fool proof in the past but it functioned reasonably well. Now it’s just a hash. Imagine a process whose goal isn’t to admit the best qualified kids but just to keep low-brow politicians like Karen Keys Gamarra and Karen Corbett Sanders off your backs.

Sure, if you are okay with allowing the wealthy to game admission and excluding the poor.

There aren't many wealthy students at TJ - most are middle class except some wealthy white students.

Most have families who shell out $20k for prep classes so by my definition they're wealthy.