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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No test no prepping, now remove the quotas per school and socio economic score. Highest achievers of any kind gets in. [/quote]

People game the system by taking expensive prep classes which give them access to the test in advance. This means you aren't finding the highest achievers at all just kids whose parents sent them to prep. [/quote]

Totally! This favors wealthy areas and is exactly why per-school quotas make sense.[/quote]

But if there’s no test, there is nothing to prep for so no prep classes. Why we still need quotas? [/quote]

Maybe because many of the kids were already prepping and had been for years?

Maybe because [b]300 years of oppression and discrimination isn’t overcome[/b] by dropping a test and some under-performing children have a huge amount of untapped intelligence? [/quote]

What's the cutoff when this will not be used as an excuse?  350 years? 400 years?  While I shudder thinking about the injustice perpetrated by slavery, using that narrative as an excuse for failure is just a yoke that keeps weighing one down.  Teach your kids to approach the world with the mindset that they are AT LEAST as good as everyone else.

The 1.5% from each HS is actually a great compromise.  My older DC went to TJ and the younger one did not get past the second test.  He might have gotten in with the the 1.5% rule (his school barely sends anyone to TJ) but he does not have the right work ethic for TJ.  Hopefully, parents will make the right choice based not just on aptitude but also on attitude and willingness to work hard.[/quote]

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