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[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] It's not a cap, it's a quota. They are trying to fill that quota. [/quote]
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