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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would also add that the advocates should acknowlege that the current process has flaws. (Its no secret that 28% of the class of 2024 came from one prep company.)

Ignoring the elephant in the room will not make it go away and people will dismiss you if you do not address it.  [/quote]

Shut that prep company down then. Don't use it as a straw man to attack all Asians. [/quote]

Nope.  That would never work, because there is obviously a culture of cheating, and FCPS tax payers won't spend their tax money chasing cheaters down.  The cheaters left no option but to change the school.  Happy now?[/quote]

So if NFL catches players taking performance enhancing drugs in the league's combine, it should just cancel the 40 yard dash and all the other tests and use a lottery to draft players? You go after cheaters when there is a cheating problem. You don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

By the tone of your post, you are not URM. You are an angry Karen whose kids can't compete on a leveling field. No amount of training can elevate your kids to a high level, so you want to drag everyone down low.[/quote]

DP.  I think you are missing the point.  I'd replace your baby with the bath water analogy with the suggestion you are missing the forest for the trees.

Curie may be a particularly egregious example of students with an unfair advantage gaining admission to TJ, but it is symptomatic of a much larger pay-to-play culture where students whose parents can afford the big TJ feeders, subsidize their participation in the "right" activities to pad their young CVs, and enroll them in test-prep courses get a gold star while Black, Hispanic and low-income students are turned away and sent the message they are not sufficiently intelligent or deserving.

Either this culture should be changed, through a proposal like a lottery, or TJ should be shut down entirely as a magnet. [/quote]

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