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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Pacific Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against Brabrand and the School Board today in federal district court on behalf of a primarily Asian advocacy group alleging the changes to the TJ admissions process were racially motivated and violate the Equal Protection Clause.

https://pacificlegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Coalition-for-TJ-v.-Fairfax-County-School-Board.pdf

This one will require more resources to defend than the one filed in local court.  Why is Brabrand subjecting FCPS to such litigation risk over and over again?  He got hired saying "the main thing was the main thing."  People naively thought he meant academics; instead, it's turned out to be "equity" initiatives that invite judicial challenges.  [/quote]

This, like the other lawsuits, is going absolutely nowhere. The families of the eighth graders are not going to get their injunctive relief - it was already denied in another case - and once the die is cast in the admissions process and students are admitted, they will almost certainly remove their names from the lawsuit. (By the way, several of the litigants are almost certain to gain admission.)

FCPS is many things, but one thing they're not is willing to put themselves at risk of litigation. The entire reason this process took so long was because Brabrand was ironing out any possibility of legal challenge. By far the most effective department in FCPS is Legal, and it has to be because of nonsense like this.

I'd like to ask this question: [b]Why is admission to TJ so important to these communities?[/b][/quote]

I can't speak fully for the local Asian-American community, but I believe they feel they are discriminated against in many aspects of American society and that STEM has been an area where, if their children receive a strong educational foundation, they will be able to compete on a level playing field and succeed professionally as adults.  From their perspective, the admissions process that has been in place for years was fair and largely objective, and they believe it is anti-Asian sentiment that led a White Superintendent and a majority-White School Board to label TJ, with its majority Asian population, "toxic" and effect changes that clearly would have the effect of reducing, and likely were designed to reduce, the number and percentage of Asian students at the school.

Obviously, some think the community is "over-invested" in TJ, but if that's your view you should also ask why admission to TJ was so important to other communities that they demanded a change in the process. [/quote]

I have to agree with this. [/quote]

Other communities demanded a change in the process because every community sees the importance of STEM and access to the excellent STEM education/facilities provided by TJ was dependent on a test that many thought was being gamed by those in the know and with the financial resources to circumvent the test security.  Note the new admissions standards don't have any quotas based on race and remove the issues surrounding the test.  Also, getting rid of the test levels the playing field for some Asian kids whose parents don't have the resources to game the system, so don't assume this is bad for all Asians.  I don't know who will prevail in this lawsuit, but I hope at the end of it, whatever system is left standing doesn't disadvantage lower SES students whose parents don't have the financial resources to pay for outside prep, etc.  [/quote]

Then they need to drop the “experience factors”[/quote]

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