
Since admissions, are competitive per MS now, are the schools going to become competitive and treacherous as families undermine each other to get ahead?
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Precisely which facts are ugly? |
The state is welcome to act in any way they want to whenever they want. I think it’s more telling that nearly 18 months into the Youngkin administration, with all of the promises they made to the Indian community in Northern Virginia, there’s been no action from them AT ALL. |
The modeling intended to produce desired racial outcomes and internal emails and text messages among SB members acknowledging the anti-Asian sentiment. |
The modeling came from Brabrand and was in relation to a policy (the merit lottery) that the School Board rejected. Brabrand isn’t on trial here - as much as perhaps he should be. The internal text messages were basically the School Board members talking amongst themselves about what a bad idea the merit lottery would be (because of the perception issues) and how out of touch Brabrand was. If this matter were Coalition v. Brabrand, you’d have a point. It is not, so you (and by proxy the Coalition) do not. |
Brabrand was trying to work himself back into the good graces of the School Board. Just because he failed doesn’t mean that staff wasn’t largely doing the bidding of the School Board, and it was SB members like Pekarsky, Omeish, and Sizemore Heizer who penned emails and text messages that several judges viewed as admissions of discriminatory intent.
It will be interesting to see the upcoming decisions in the Harvard and UNC cases. The facts are different but the reasoning may provide the Coalition’s lawyers with some ammunition. Stated simply, this ain’t over yet, even though the number of people who actually care about TJ seems to continue to decline. |
You didn’t make a point in that first paragraph word salad. The narrative you’re pushing is Asra’s, not reality’s. The discriminatory intent you’re referencing - importantly, and AGAIN - is Brabrand’s. And is immaterial to this conversation. Which part of that fact is challenging to you? |
+1 trillion |
So important. Brabrand was a complete boob in this entire process but Nomani’s creative cut and paste made it look like the conversations were about something they weren’t. No one liked the Merit Lottery, including the School Board. The “tJ pApErS” were always nonsense. |
Say all black students were in one middle school, and these students were getting 50% of the seats, and then they adopted a policy of an equal number of seats from each middle school. I don't think the argument 'just move to another school' would fly. |
If a new school were opened and they used the current TJ admissions policy, it would not be considered racially discriminatory. The bigger problem is even if they are selecting Asians, they are not selecting the top Asian students within a school, though this might be different at the big feeders. TJ is missing out on many top students. |
Bad analogy. Carson was neither all (or even majority) Asian nor did all Asian students go to Carson. |
They are in conflict. They also had different decisions. King presumably doesn't say the analysis was wrong, but the use of the analysis was wrong. |
TJ has always missed out on many top students. It’s just missing out on a (VERY) slightly different group of them now. |
Much has changed. That was an appeal about a stay, while this is the actual case. |