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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't read all the pages of this thread but my kids go to a different FCPS high school and I could care less who the principal of TJ is. I have no idea why this email was sent county wide. What a waste.  We got a new principal a few years ago, how come an email was not sent to the whole county?[/quote]

They're trying to send a message to the whole county because the shit that went down with TJ admissions is correctly seen as DEI run amok.  
Most decent people don't attribute asian academic success to cheating, they see how hard they work, they should probably learn not to park their shopping cart in the middle of the aisle at costco but they generally think asians deserve their academic success.
Most decent people don't think academic opportunities should be allocated based on skin color.
Most decent people don't think keeping asians down is a good way to lift everyone else up.
Fairfax is mostly decent people.[/quote]
[b]#FAKENEWS[/b]

That's precisely why it's a race-blind process. [b]Further, the actual data shows that selection mirrors applications[/b]. When the C4TJ folks tried to make these outlandish claims in court, their lawsuit was rejected for a complete lack of evidence. [/quote]

If the actual achievement levels and aptitudes among the applicants aren't similar, yet the selection is, then the process is discriminating against the higher achieving cohort.  From SOL data, it looks like some groups have much higher pass advanced rates in higher level math classes than other groups.  Yet, the admissions rates are nearly identical.  [/quote]

Again that's false. They are selecting the top students from each school. This is a vast improvement over the old process that just selected students from a few wealthy feeders where parents invested heavily in elite prep.[/quote]

Why is it an improvement to channel the highest achieving kids to AAP centers and then have the same quotas for each middle school, including those with few high achieving kids?  Sounds like a patronage system, not a way to provide opportunities to the most qualified.  [/quote]

The 1.5% should probably be based on base elementary school.

Some middle schools send kids that almost all went to the same couple of elementary schools.[/quote]

Careful. If you make any changes to the allocations then some group will claim “racism”.  
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