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FCPS Board Member Admits ‘Anti-Asian Feel’ to New High School Admission Process
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Anonymous
Unless you build another TJ, it is a zero sum game. Increasing black and hispanic enrollment was always going to reduce Asian enrollment. It would have reduced white enrollment too if race could have been used as a factor, but one that was blocked, geography was the closest proxy and there are more white students spread throughout the whole county than Asian students |
Anonymous
They really should just change it to an Academy for post-AP classes. There are almost no classes that freshman and sophomores takes that are not offered at the base high schools. |
Anonymous
+1000 |
Anonymous
But, then FCPS could not advertise the #1 high school in the country. But, that's likely to change in any case. |
Anonymous
Not anymore than all the talk about the “South African Variant”. |
Anonymous
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There's an underlying assumption being made in some of the arguments here, that those who score the highest on tests and get the highest grades are necessarily the strongest students. This is not true, which is why US colleges don't admit purely based on numbers.
Some students get higher numbers because they are really good at following directions and making sure they get every little assignment done completely, but they don't understand the material as deeply as others. And some students get higher numbers because they focus 100% of their energy on getting those high numbers, while their classmates--who may be just as brilliant or even more so--get grades or test scores that are a bit lower due to not having as much time because they're spending many hours a week on some activity they love. Admissions offices at the college level, and now also at TJ, have the unenviable task of ferreting out who will prove to be the better bet in the long run. It's not a perfect system, but it's better than relying solely on numbers, which misses quite a few very promising students. |
Anonymous
Be the change. Advocate for better policies. Run for office. Whites don’t care enough. |
Anonymous
you sound a little racist |
Anonymous
As long as you don't still have family hoping to immigrate |
Anonymous
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Uh, according to the Wash Post, there was no change to white students admissions rate under the new approach. 22% of admits were white, similar to past four years, and dramatically smaller share than their makeup in county demographics, which show 60% of residents are white.
Where's this big systemic payoff you claim? |
Anonymous
Both goals can be true. The SB could want to increase URM enrollment and ALSO decrease Asian American enrollment. It'd be one thing if the SB was singing the praises of Asian Americans and lauding the culture but acknowledging the need to make room for URMs. That would have been a lot more palatable. Instead, members of the SB basically implied Asian Americans didn't deserve their seats and made it clear they preferred fewer Asian Americans at TJ. The whole "pay-to-play" comment is a racist dog whistle. That kind of attitude cannot be tolerated in our leadership. Now, we know that the SB was gaming the system to maximize URM enrollment in the same way politicians use data to gerrymander voter districts. Instead of voters choosing politicians, the politicians choose the voters. Similarly, the school board was shaping the student body by running simulations against their admission criteria until they achieved their desired goals. While the current admissions criteria is technically race neutral, the process of getting there was completely motivated by race. |
Anonymous
| They used middle schools, unless you think that they’ve been planning this for decades, you sound like a loon |
Anonymous
The prior system at TJ, which was working fine, did not rely solely on numbers. In addition, insofar as TJ is a public high school rather than a private college with far greater resources, the challenges that admissions officers face at colleges, who may have an unenviable task but at least are able to look at an application from a 17 or 18-year-old as opposed to a 13 or 14-year-old, will only be magnified at TJ, unless you propose to allocate an even larger amount of FCPS's time and resources to TJ. The notion that TJ is now better positioned to spot hidden genius than it was before is a convenient fiction, but not a convincing one. |
Anonymous
1. people are calling it omicron 2. it's a variant of the ch1na virus, a name that Trump pushed to place blame and take the focus off of him and his inabilty to deal with the crisis (which is why he lost) |
Anonymous
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Pekarsky emailed Omeish that Brabrand “screwed up TJ and the Asians hate us.” Omeish responded that he was “just dumb and too white” to address the diversity deficit in FCPS properly.
What do you think of the above text by AO from the article? Agree with PP that the WaPo will not inquire/investigate. The 2,000 + legal docs released were filled with info. |