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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s move on!  Demographic make up seems to be working for the class of 2025.  All reports so far indicate a successful school year is underway.[/quote]

ONE WEEK![/quote]

Long before this admissions change, the first week or two for TJ freshmen was all about ice breakers and orientation.  Not sure why that PP thinks conclusions can be drawn already (except she has an agenda to push).[/quote]

No conclusions can be drawn already, and the ones that are there to be drawn will be extremely difficult to measure. Making things worse is the fact that families insist on cornering the market on any type of phrasing that can be used to signify an improvement in the environment as "racist" or "dog-whistles" when the problems that have existed at TJ long predate the Asian majority.

For some reason, the status quo crowd seems to want to make all of the problems at TJ about Asians instead of about a flawed admissions process that hadn't REALLY changed that much in 30 years and was well behind the curve with respect to elite educational institutions - as well as a principal who actively didn't do anything to deal with the problems that had arisen at his school that he remade in his own image.

It's a cute strategy that you can probably leverage for the Oppression Olympics, but it's disingenuous and doesn't do much for your public perception.[/quote]

"Didn't do anything to deal with the problems" - what exactly was the problem?  Too many Asians?  It's the #1 high school in the country.  Really hard to say they weren't doing a good job.[/quote]

The problem was too many kids who pinned their entire self-worth on how many awards they won, how many APs they took, and - worst of all - what colleges they did or didn't get into. It's not a good thing when half the senior class every year is disappointed in their college destination, and the problem was a combination of unrealistic expectations and poor strategic choices on how to get there.

And again - it had nothing to do with the proportion of Asian students at the school. It had everything to do with a flawed admissions process that gave kids a backwards idea of, among other things, how to get into a school.[/quote]

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