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That really depends on how the holding is phrased. Are you counting on this Court to rule narrowly? I'd think think it's more likely we get a language barring the use of race in admissions that we get language restricting the holding to the university level. [/quote]

FCPS is claiming they are not using race in admissions to TJ.  If a county opened a brand new school with the current admissions policy, there would be no case.
The racial discrimination is a finding by the judge that FCPS made these changes with intent to discriminate against Asians.
LCPS was more blatant in putting in a maximum quota per school, and claiming they weren't using geography as a proxy for race.
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Except that's illegal in the United States. Admission is race blind. They do not know an applicant's race just their student ID and the information they provided in their essay.[/quote]
They know what school the student attends.  The policy of taking a minimum number per school,[b] based on the racial distribution at different schools in FCPS[/b], serves to discriminate by race.
It is a great way to reduce the number of Asians while claiming to be race blind.  [/quote]

The allocation of seats to different middle schools depends entirely on the number of students in their 8th grade class, not on the race of the students at those schools. Carson has one of the largest allocations because it's one of the largest schools.

You're factually incorrect.[/quote]
I wasn't suggesting the allocation was done based on race.  I am saying the policy of allocating by middle school, can be racial discrimination with certain demographics.
If every school had the same distribution by race, then this policy of doing seats by middle school would not be racial discrimination.
Say of the 480 seats at TJ, Asians took 350, and all 350 every year came from a single high school where Asians were 50% of the school, and in other schools Asians were just a handful of students.  Adopting a per school quota would be an excellent way to reduce Asian numbers while pretending to be race blind.

Indeed if every high school had the same racial distribution, I think FCPS would have skipped the step of distributing seats by middle school.[/quote]

Actually that's untrue. Allocation by school is even considered a best practice in gifted education.[/quote]

Sure, but it's also a best practice to have a holistic review of a much more comprehensive application which includes grades, test scores, recommendations, substantial essays, and more.  Picking "the best" kids from a school based on a couple fluff essays isn't best practices anywhere.  [/quote]

Strange, I read the essays were just part of a holistic review that includes grades and test scores. The only difference is teacher recs which have been shown to be racially biased.[/quote]
Strange that you are commenting on a TJ thread while woefully ignorant of basically everything.  The current process uses no test scores, so you are lying about that.  It only lightly uses GPA, and the total point difference between a 3.5 GPA and a 4.0 is pretty insignificant.  It does not holistically consider courseload difficulty or any significant achievements. So, you're also effectively lying about the holistic review truly including grades or truly being holistic in any real sense of the word.  Assuming no free experience factor points, over 90% of the points come from two essays, one a trivial problem solving one that any above average kid will find simple, and the other a portrait sheet where the kid tries to prove that they conform well to the Portrait of a Graduate bullet points.  In the last two years, these essays were completely unproctored. [/quote]

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