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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guarantee that there are parents of admitted students hiring lawyers to respond.  FCPS caused this situation by not asking the question clearly for two years in a row despite many parents pointing out the issues.

If admitted parents band together, I don’t see how FCPS can fight them affectively.  There are statements on the FCPS website, in email blasts and in news bulletins from school board members. Many of these contain the words “all students are eligible for free meals”.

The TJ admissions office should have done their jobs and figured out a solution BEFORE sending out offers.  Not after the sh!t is already out of the horse.  [/quote]

Agreed, and yet here we are. So what is the best way out of this mess?

There need not be any penalty for answering yes. We can agree that anyone who answered yes answered truthfully. But we're now being told that the question about eligibility for free meals was meant to determine economically disadvantaged status (despite its not having been clearly worded as such and being a poor proxy for such in light of pandemic policies). And getting free lunch because everyone got free lunch during the pandemic is, we can all agree, *not* the same as being economically disadvantaged. The admissions criterion is being economically disadvantaged, not eligibility for free lunch. Nobody has grounds to argue that they deserve the EF points because of pandemic eligibility for free lunch.

Families with sufficiently low income have documentation of such and can provide it; they and only they should get FRM experience factor points.

There is already a lawsuit about the admission process more generally. I think that there would be grounds for a lawsuit if some applicants undeservedly got FRM EF points just by answering yes, so that needs to be rectified and it seems that it will be. There might also be grounds for a lawsuit if offers of admission are rescinded, but that strikes me as the right bullet to bite in this case. It's a mess either way, but getting closer to the right grout of admittees has to be the preferred goal.[/quote]

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