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Generally speaking, that falls in the category of "multiracial", a designation that did not change significantly year-over-year.

When you post a factual inaccuracy that is demonstrably false, you are done - that is to say, not to be taken seriously anymore because you don't know what you're talking about.[/quote]

:shock: Hispanic is an ethnicity and not a race.  You'd have to be comatose to have failed to notice that on every single school or medical form you fill out, under "Race", there is not a Hispanic category.  Then, there's a separate checkbox for Hispanic or non-Hispanic after the race one.  Many kids would check the boxes for White under race and then Hispanic under ethnicity.  Some would check black or something else under race, and then Hispanic for ethnicity.  [/quote]

That's not how the TJ application works. The category is "Race/Ethnicity", and you have the following options: "White (non-Hispanic), Black (non-Hispanic), Hispanic, Asian, Multi-Racial/Other".

[b]Again, you're not wrong, you just don't understand (or are choosing to conveniently ignore) the core concept of what's being discussed[/b].[/quote]

Uh.. No.  Someone (you?) asserted that kids who are white and hispanic would fall under the multiracial category.  That is absolutely false, and they would not be considered multiracial.  For FCPS paperwork, a white child of Hispanic ethnicity would check "White" for their race, and then they'd check "Hispanic".  If they did a combined race/ethnicity, they would simply check Hispanic.  Either way, TJ would consider those kids to be Hispanic and not white or multiracial.  Multiracial is for kids who are of two races.  It isn't used for Hispanic kids of a single race.  
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DP. Thank you for clarifying your point.

It's more than a little silly, though, given all of the peripheral statistics in the class of 25, to assume that the huge jump in the Hispanic population was attributable to a bunch of white kids who identified as Hispanic in ethnicity. I think it's much more credible to assert that several of those students comprised the "Hispanic" populations of previous TJ classes. Indeed, I've met a few of them over the years. But with so many more students coming from schools that actually have sizeable Latine/Latinx populations, I think it's pretty likely you've got a ton more kids who are what one might refer to as genuinely Latine/x.

Plus, and it sucks that this is a relevant metric, but the jump to 25% FARMS and the proportion of FCPS FARMS students who are Latine/x also supports that assertion.[/quote]

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