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Federal judge rules that admissions changes at nation’s top public school discriminate against Asian
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Anonymous
Why reward merit when you can promote class warfare the easy way, by throwing Asians under the bus. Can't wait for these disgusting hypocrites to see their political careers come to a crashing halt next year. Slimy hypocrites, every one of them. |
Anonymous
Which school is wealthier than TJ? Langley was 2% low-income. TJ was 0.6%. |
Anonymous
Go look at Asra’s house and tell me wealthy Asian parents don’t care about TJ. The middle income families are angry - BUT THEY’RE HELPED BY THE NEW PROCESS. |
Anonymous
Robert Mugabe’s government established qualification criteria for distribution of Zimbabwe’s sovereign funds to the needy. The legislature established objective criteria that yielded Robert and Grace Mugabe as the only qualified candidates. Nothing was ever stolen in Zimbabwe - the distribution of sovereign funds was endorsed by the legislature. And yes, I agree with you. |
Anonymous
+1000 this is true!!! When you limit the ability of wealthy families to drop $5K on boutique exam prep, you help middle class families of ALL races. And before you come at me with “Curie still got 90 kids in”, do the math. 2024: 133/486 = 27.37% 2025: 90/550 = 16.36% That’s a HUGE difference. |
Anonymous
What you are missing is that the new process penalizes kids that never prepped. They just happen to live in a wealthy area and that is being held against them. In doing your perfect “math”, you treat that innocent non-prepped kid as collateral damage. Bravo! That is a kid whose aspirations were dashed by cynical folks like you. What is roadkill for you is somebody’s child. The prep industry and those that leveraged them are no good but neither are you for defending the new process that is equally inequitable. The School board could have done better and there was no hurry. But bravo |
Anonymous
Wait, what house? I thought it was a cabin in WV... |
Anonymous
The cheating scandal needed rectification. The students were not penalized. But something needed to be done. "There was no hurry"? |
Anonymous
Cheating scandal needed rectification. Agreed. You believe students were not penalized because you believe the new process admitted the most deserving ones and did not exclude anyone non-deserving. That is wrong. The new process is unfair. I use unfair as a secular term (the current definition of fairness assumes anything that favors URM and penalizes others is fair - that is not fair in the secular sense). You may also believe (like many on this Board do) that all Asians prep and cheat. That is plain and simple prejudice. Something needed to be done. Agreed. But “something” needed more thought behind it. Yes, it was hurried. Keys Gamarra talked about the George Floyd trigger to rush things. We were in the middle of a pandemic when consultations could not really be done. Political expediency was center-stage and not leadership from our elected leaders. Glad the school board has been rapped on the knuckles by the judge. |
Anonymous
I don't think the "most deserving" were admitted. I think there are a lot of deserving, highly talented students in FCPS and Nova, and yes, obviously, some of them will be excluded. That has always been the case, and it still is/will be with new admissions criteria. And I think widening the geographic demographic is a good idea, for several reasons. |
Anonymous
So we can agree an imperfect process was replaced by an imperfect process. Two wrongs don’t make a right. And that is the point. With all the resources available, the school board could have done better. The “some” that you are ok with being excluded have names and they are not just a statistic like you make them out to be. No process will be fool-proof but given that this discussion has raged on for 50 pages suggests that this has struck a chord with many people. The school board could have taken their time and brought the community together. Now they have just moved the “Have” hat from one set of people to another leaving a new set of ‘have-nots”. Clearly avoidable if the school board was not beholden to political ideology as opposed to chid welfare |
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The have hat has not been moved from the ultra wealthy communities to economically disadvantaged ones. The top TJ feeders like Carson and Rocky Run are still getting tons of kids in. Now schools that rarely got any one in, Poe/Glasgow/Whitman/whoever, are also assured a solid chunk of seats.
Which communities lost out? Middle class. Rich never give from themselves to low income. Frost went from something like 25 seats to 9, which is probably only the 1.5% they are required to get. |
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Y’all making it sound like the only thing fcps did wrong was the lack of communication with the community. That’s the least of it. Trying to down play the fact that they’re racist and unconstitutional won’t make this process look an ounce more justified.
We’ll not stop here. |
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Investment has to be made to low income pre - k, elementary and middle schools the the kids there can genuinely compete with privileged peers on merit. Why can’t FCPS make free high quality TJ test prep mandatory in all of its middle schools. Why can’t all kids in social housing neighbourhoods have a free cram school walking distance from them ? |