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When a huge portion of the admitted class comes from an expensive test prep company then you know something is wrong.
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What 133 admits had in common was that they attend curie
What 355 of the admits had in common was that they were asian
The problem wasn't the preparation of the students that got in, the problem was the skin color of the students that got in.
If the students were less asian and more white/black/hispanic, they would not have changed the merit-based process.

It's pretty intellectually dishonest (bordering on [b]racist[/b]) to call curie a test prep company.
They start from pre-school and continue to high school calculus.  
They aren't doing this to get into TJ, they are doing this to maximize their education.[/quote]

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It wasn’t a “too many Asians” problem. It was a “not enough URMs, ED, EL, SN” problem.

If they just wanted to cut down on the # of Asian students they wouldn’t have expanded the class size. But they added the seats to ADD the less-represented groups.
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Too many asians = too few of everyone else.
You are elevating race above merit and that is racist[/quote]

No. It’s providing this public resource to a wider community. Not just the rich kids from feeder schools. 
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Exactly! Students from a few wealthy schools were hoarding these opportunities. The changes made this available to all FCPS students not just those who could afford the test.[/quote]

Sure, if by a few wealthy schools you mean 12 out of 29 schools providing 70% of the students to TJ with several of those school having below average family incomes.
What you really mean is that you have no confidence that you can achieve your racial goals with any sort of merit based system so you replaced merit with a much more random process in the hopes of getting an incoming class that looks like a cross section of the applicant pool.[/quote]

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