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[quote=Anonymous]This whole debate fails to address the fundamental question - what is the mission of a school like TJ? Is that mission still valid 30 years after its founding? If we can't agree on the mission of the school, we will not agree on how the school should be run or whether such a school should even exist in this era.

If the mission is to group academically advanced kids - who would otherwise be bored in the base-school curriculum - together in a single school with difficult and challenging classes, then the job of the admission should simply be identifying such kids who are advanced learners and need that challenging environment. The racial makeup of such a school shouldn't be of any concerns. The school doesn't provide "better" education. All it does is providing more challenging and difficult classes. The "education" or the teaching quality is the same for base school and such a magnet school. Getting into such a school is not some kind of "benefit" or a "resource" to be hoarded. Putting more URMs into such a school doesn't necessarily benefit them.

If the mission has changed, the SB has not articulated what the new mission of TJ is.[/quote]

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