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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]- 1.5% is a cap on the middle school; not a factor for individual admission assessments;

- most middle schools never come close to the 1.5% cap

- the cap was placed by the FCPS school board as an indirect way to reduce the number of Asian/Indian students at TJ, without singling out those students by race (which would have been unlawful racial discrimination if they had said “ no more than X-percent Asian” for example ).

- in practice, Longfellow Middle school in McLean previously sent 80 to 90 kids every year to TJ prior to the 1.5% revision.  Most of those 80 to 90 were Asian.  After the 1.5 cap was imposed, Longfellow can only send about 40 (and the majority of those 40 kids every year are Asian/Indian).[/quote]

This is completely incorrect. 1.5% is an allocation per school. Longfellows numbers were reduced because other schools got more seats, not because Longfellow was capped. In what world is 40 kids 1.5% of longfellows class? That would be a 2600 person class.  Longfellows class is actually like 600 so they will get a minimum of 9 seats (1.5%) but they end up filling a lot of the unallocsted spots as well.[/quote]

PP is incorrect.

Longfellow previously sent 80 to 90 kids every year before the school board’s “reforms.”

Now it sends approx.  40[/quote]

I am PP - I was not arguing that Longfellow sends fewer students than they did in the past. I was arguing PP's comment that the 1.5% is a cap - it is in fact a floor. Longfellow does not have a 40 student cap. They have approximately a 10 student floor. The extra ~30 students they send are filling unallocated seats.  They do not send as many students as they did before because all middle schools in FCPS (and Arlington and Loudoun) have a similar floor so seats that might have previously gone to Longfellow are now allocated to other schools. [/quote]

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