
To be fair, those other 2 universities are not competitive. If more asians applied, more asians would get in. A 75% hispanic population at CSLA doesn't make anyone look bad. A 2% black population and 4% hispanic population at TJ makes it look like the school board is failing minority students. |
The minimum criteria are met by 40% of the student population. There are schools that did not send the minimum to TJ because they didn't have enough qualified applicants. Those that did apply automatically gained admission. So unless you think 40% of the student population are qualified, the quota will result in unqualified students. |
Haha, if you think kids at TJ were not taking remedial classes in the past, I have a bridge to sell you. Lots of kids in the past had tutors every day after school and would even take classes elsewhere in the summer so that they could take essentially the same class again at TJ for credit. Many of these kids were the same ones who prepped to get in. I personally know some of these kids and their parents, so I know this to be true. My kid knows more of the kids I’m talking about here. If you’ve had long experience with TJ you would know this. |
I understand your frustration but they don't care about individual merit. The winner of the 3M middle school science competition is currently a rising sophomore at Woodson. He developed a soap that would prevent and treat skin cancer. He literally invented a cancer treatment and he didn't get into TJ. He also happens to be black. |
They are not trying to create more educational opportunity. If they were, they would create academies like loudon county did. They are trying to appropriate a reputation for excellence that was built by students that were selected through a merit based process and give it to students who could not make it through a merit based filter because they are embarrassed at how miserably they are failing their minority students. |
No matter how admissions is handled, there are always going to be kids who “deserve” a spot who don’t get one. There are only so many places, even with the increase in capacity. We live in an area with highly educated and well off families, many of whom would like their kids to go to TJ. We could probably open three more TJs and fill them with all the kids whose families want that type of education for them. (Although I believe that some parents would suddenly lose interest if the prestige factor disappears when there is not a competitive process and instead anyone who wants to can go.) |
That is for speech outside the administration of their duties. If the school policy is that teachers follow a particular process and not speak directly to parents about students academic performance, that is not a free speech issue. |
Sure, but the reason they adopted thew 1.5% rule was for racial reasons. |
It sounds like you are saying that asians have to move to avoid discrimination. |
If wealth was driving TJ admissions, you would think TJ would be overwhelmingly white rather than asian. |
So what part of the previous process was measuring affluence and not merit? |
No, that is a very incorrect accusation. A decreased acceptance rate has nothing to do with discrimination and is mathematically, not subjectively, the result of the 1.5% distribution per middle school. Is it discrimination to give opportunity to every middle school to send kids to a local high school that serves the area? The data has been posted earlier: the number of Asian kids enrolled has stayed constant. |
Only if you use base years that include a time when the asian population was still growing. If you use the year or two immediately preceding the change as baseline, then next year's student body would have between 1420 and 1440 asians. Next year there are going to be about 1282 asian students. Using the baseline, there would have been between 344 and 376 white students attending TJ next year. Next year, there will be about 485 white students. |
Not really but the school does not have to spend a lot of money on special ed or ESL so it's not a perfect analogy. |
Nope they literally said that people were buying test answers. And if income was such an important factor, then why weren't there more white students at TJ? |