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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my biggest concern: 
What if the smartest Asian kid, smartest Indian kid, smartest Black Kid, smartest White kid, smartest Hispanic kid.....all of them...all of them dont get lucky in the lottery.
And these five kids were the ones who were going to be the next inventors, innovators in STEM and we failed them because they were "unlucky"

With the lottery system, there is still no guarantee that the selection pool will be diverse or the smartest well deserved URM student will be in TJ. 
I understand the need to help the URM kids who had no access to prepping. 
Why can't we have a quota, for example, 40 or 50 sears for the highest scoring Hispanics, same for the highest scoring Blacks? Isn't this better, because now we have the best kids who can take that rigor, who tested well. and need that level? 
And even if those URM kids did not prep, they are still the best among them, and that's who we want to serve in TJ. I know quota-based can also have pitfalls, but it can be closely monitored to adjust etc each year.

If we open TJ selection for lottery and everyone who just wants to try for the heck of it, gets lucky, the entire school will have to scramble, or parents will hate this, whose kids are stuggling and the kids whose needs are not met because of the struggling kids. And then what?  It will take a few years to realize the very essemce of TJ is lost. [/quote]

Let's be honest, kids like the five you described will excel anywhere.  The kids a STEM school will make the most difference for are lower SES kids who are very smart but not geniuses, who need exposure to a strong STEM curriculum to really develop them into future STEM leaders because their parents don't have the resources/knowledge to develop their interest in STEM.  The idea that the STEM school in the county should be limited to only the top one percent of the county with no effort to develop other kids interested in STEM should be questioned.  I'm glad it finally is being challenged.[/quote]

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