I’d love to see a limit on the number of TJ admits from one particular ES/MS feeder. |
Yes, of your primary concern is racial balancing |
That's illegal in the US. If you can show that's going on you can win a multi-million dollar lawsuit. Good luck! |
Wanting racial balance is not illegal. Changing a merit based process to a race neutral process that de-emphasizes merit in order to achieve more racial balancing is not illegal. That's not affirmative action. No race is getting a preference in the process. The intent behind the change was race driven but the process itself is not racially discriminatory. |
Yes, but it is illegal to consider race for selection to these programs in the US. That is why the process is RACE BLIND. |
WRONG!!! The change was made to address the rampant cheating, which had resulted in only students from wealthy schools who could afford test prep being selected. |
Not true. If the changes were made with an intent of discriminating by race, even racially neutral criteria can be found as discrimination. A voter ID case in I think Texas was decided in this way. |
Correct! |
Yes, the process is race blind just as literacy tests and poll taxes were technically race blind. But the 2021 changes to the process were primarily driven by concerns over racial balance. |
That was based on the voting rights act, not the 14th amendment. |
You can repeat that as many times as you want but it was clear throughout the rpocess and in the emails beteween FCPS board members that the primary concern was the lack of URM students at the school. |
The groups that were underrepresented by the old admissions process are: Black kids Latino kids Poor kids of all races Girls |
This statement is categorically false. Love, Everyone's favorite pro-reform poster (the Savior, the Curie person, call me what you will) |
and the first two groups (under-represented minorities) were the ones they cared about, as demonstrated by the emails and texts between the fcps board members. |
Right. And I can’t see anything wrong with trying to provide opportunities to kids from varying and diverse backgrounds. |