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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Understand that in many white, AA, and Hispanic homes other things are valued rather than prep at all cost.  Many are involved in their houses of worship, league sports, helping out in the family business at a young age, working a job at age 15 etc.  "Prepping" at all costs is not the norm for American kids nor has it ever been.[/quote]

This is the definition of a racist. My asian kids are involved with their church, help out with family business , work a summer job. At the same time, they value their education very much and make studying (not prepping) their priority .  They don't play league sports because they just are not qualified enough. Ironically, nobody has a problem with sports (where there is an obvious lack of Asian representation) being able to select by merit, but god forbid, asian kids being a majority in a magnet school and everybody gets their panties in a twist.[/quote]

I'd love to see the sports teams selected by lottery.  The results would be equally ludicrous.  [/quote]

No one is advocating for greater diversity in orchestras or debate teams or spelling bees. Stop advocating for diversity in sports, or at least appreciate that the TJ sports teams are dominated by Asians.[/quote]

No what I want is the sports team's racial composition to reflect the racial diversity of that particular school. Why isn't that important? The black/hispanic/ white students can learn a thing or 2 about empathy for their weaker teammates. And im totally fine with the same diversity in orchestras, debate teams, or spelling bees.[/quote]

By and large, when you cobble together the compositions of all of the sports teams at any particular school, they tend to reflect the demographics of the school as a whole.

But even so, athletics and academics are not the same thing. Sports teams are put together to prepare for competitions against other sports teams. TJ as a school, while it does compete against other schools in many ways (including - go figure - sports!) is not put together with the intent of competing against any other school. Competition against other schools is not THE POINT of TJ, and people who are obsessed with rankings tend not to understand that.

If we ever get to a place where the express purpose of TJ is to compete against other schools, then I think the status-quo advocates will have a good argument. I don't think FCPS is that worried about the rankings - they'll get more juice out of having an exceptional school (which it will still be) that isn't [i]massively segregated[/i] than they get constantly being bombarded with justified accusations that it's a racist environment borne of an unintentionally racist admissions process.[/quote]

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