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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly the OP didn't read the article or the judicial opinion on the case that was posted.  A lottery based system for magnet schools, in and of itself, is not unconstitutional.  Using race as the primary criteria is the issue.  FCPS is not doing that in the lottery system they would like to implement.  The first threshold is the GPA requirement, then they implement the Region-based quota--the actual proxy for race consideration--and then they will figure out a way to handle the lottery aspect of the final pool accepted.  [b]Now if there are no Hispanic or Africian Americans in the Region capable of meeting the 3.5 GPA[/b], FCPS will have the same issue it currently has, but [b]I assume certain schools will be told to bolster grade point averages for students in order to qualify more URM students for the lottery[/b].  Whether or not teachers or Administrators do this will depend on their ethical standards.  But the plan will withstand legal challenges because it doesn't inherently favor one race over the other in an in-your-face way.  It's more subtle than that.[/quote]

Imagine being racist enough to believe this. Good grief. This is just horrendous.[/quote]

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