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[quote=Anonymous]“HOPE” replaced GBRS.  The intent was to add more DEI to the AAP program.

Previously,  AAP was race-blind.  It was open to all, regardless of skin color.

The prior, single-party, school board was not happy with the racial make-up of AAP, even though it was majority-minority (white kids have always been in the minority).  Specifically, the prior school board (plus Braybrand) were dismayed at how many brown-skinned Indian kids there were, along with all the Asian kids in AAP.  They saw the Asians and Indians as beneficiaries of “unearned privilege”.

So they sought ways to replace as many Indians and Asians with “URMs” - under represented minorities.

The HOPE score included many vague terms which could be used to provide cover for adding more URMs, while justifying including kids who were not “in pool” on the objective academic measurements.

One way to skirt academic achievement standards was to add “arts” to the HOPE scale.

Look at some of the other criteria, which clearly have nothing to do with academics.  It’s right there on the scale.

Yes: it is a DEI scheme, quite obviously.[/quote]

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