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The lawsuit will give insight into that process.  FCPS says its race-blind.  We will know for certain in a few months.  [/quote]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet that you won't.

If there were a means to compel public institutions to reveal their proprietary admissions processes, you'd see them publicly posted with regard to literally hundreds of universities.

The lawsuit is going to evaluate the question of whether or not FCPS can use geographic representation quotas in their admissions processes. It's well established that they can, but the question will basically be "was Brabrand doing this entirely because of too many Asians".

The motion for injunctive relief was denied and the process for the Class of 2026 is going to go on as scheduled without interruption. Brabrand is resigning after this year and the next superintendent will have a clean slate from which to operate this legal process.

The [b]Coalition for the Status Quo[/b] might very well win the case and get a judge to tell them that they're right - in which case, congratulations - but there will be no impact on the admissions process in future years until a new School Board is elected in November of 2023. The present School Board will just find another way to do the same thing if they're required to do so.[/quote]

Isn't it a bit ironic to suggest that you're trying to defeat the status quo, when at the same time you're saying that the school board will stop at nothing to support you?  Doesn't that make you the status quo, and thus the embodiment of all the ugliness that a status quo entails?

I keep wondering who we're really trying to benefit here.  I was one of those kids who the teachers tried to bury because I thought different, I didn't wear designer clothes, and I had a funny name.  Luckily for me, the IQ tests came out on my side, and I was able to back it up when they put me in advanced classes.  The whole idea that high-end merit testing is a tool of discrimination rather than an enemy of discrimination sets of all kinds of red flags for me.  I'm sure we could trade plenty of stories about being the only kid in class who didn't have cable TV because our parents weren't going to pay for it, but I really am worried about whether these changes will be good for anybody.

Let me be cynical and put things into the context of other prominent political changes.  For the past couple of decades, we've been swept up in this thing called the Global War on Terror.  Its intention were very noble:
[list]Bring freedom and democracy to less fortunate parts of the world.[/list][list]Keep Americans safe from acts of terror.[/list] The thing is, sometimes things can sound very nice on the surface, but hide something very different underneath.  The true goals of it turned out to be something more like this:
[list]Use political cover to go on a rage-induced revenge rampage someplace far away where most Americans wouldn't care what happened.[/list][list]Let influential people get the jump on leveraging powerful emerging Internet technologies as tools for exploitation and control.[/list]
In this case, the stated goals of the TJ changes are:
[list]To make TJ more inclusive for Blacks, Hispanics, and less affluent students.[/list][list]To prevent people from misusing their privilege to cheat and buy their way into TJ.[/list] I know that not all well-intentioned changes go sour.  Still, it will probably take a bit of convincing to get me to believe that the deeper motives are any better than this:
[list]Exploiting people with marginal societal influence, in a jealousy-induced effort to undercut the success of a different disliked minority.[/list][list]Turning the admissions process into a more opaque numbers game, so that people with strong political connections will have way more wiggle room to play favorites, and to proclaim new meanings for the word "smart," when it fits their agendas.[/list]
But whatever.  We live in a society which is more than willing to break a few things before it can convince itself that it was wrong.[/quote]

Sad. But so very true. The Merit Lottery originally proposed would have given whites a plurality at TJ. [/quote]

This is true [b]if and only if[/b] the applicant pool was exactly as the C4TJ "study" presumed it would - where literally every single eligible 8th grader in the catchment areas applied to TJ. Because the pool of eligible 8th graders - like the pool of all 8th graders - is plurality white, of course the eventual selection pool would mirror that demographic fairly closely.

There is no reasonable scenario where it can be believed that every single eligible 8th grader would have applied to TJ. This is the biggest reason why the whole "44% white" number that was thrown about was intentionally misleading - because it supports the convenient narrative that all of these changes were put in place with an eye toward increasing the white population at TJ. This has never been true. The present school board doesn't care at all about the white population.[/quote]

Yes they do. That’s why there are no walkers that go to Whitman Middle School, and why they spend $700 million to expand capacity at West Springfield HS, which was already at over capacity, than send white children to a mostly black and brown school, Mount Vernon, which is at under capacity. [/quote]

Let’s not forget that FCPS did their own study on Merit lottery, after they proposed it, that came to same conclusions as C4TJ. Anyone can run those numbers that takes into account that lottery slots were limited based on region, and not county wide, applicants.

Since you are also claiming that the school board doesn’t care for whites, let’s look at Langley, mostly white, less than 2% Free and Reduced Meals, and offers many of the same classes as TJ. Where are these so called ‘diversity’ advocates?! Silence. Admission reform at TJ was motivated by jealousy and is all about tearing down a non-white group.[/quote]

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