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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There you go again linking “elimination of exams” to the Asian identity. You will say you were only saying something that you don’t want to believe.  But you have already in a subtle and insidious way contributed to the narrative.  I don’t want to say that folks in West Virginia marry their cousins.  That is not true at all.  But you see what that does?

The issue is not with eliminating the exam. It is not with the desire to reform TJ and make it more inclusive.  It is about the haste that has gone into pushing through this “reform” in a year where the school board had so much unprecedented issues to deal with.  It is cynical and politically expedient.  The urgency has been justified by absolutely abhorrent Anti-Asian narrative on this board and elsewhere.  There could be many more workable approaches considered given some time but Braband owes a debt to his political masters.  And apologists on this board like yourself is the wind beneath his wings [/quote]

In all seriousness, for those for whom the haste is the main issue, I have a fair amount of sympathy. I really do. You've been playing by a certain set of rules and now those rules have been completely changed. But there's also the matter of.... if it's the right thing to do, then waiting for later is not the answer. They determined that it was the right thing to do, so they went and did it. And frankly, they've gone through several iterations to get to this point (remember the merit lottery? what a crapshow that would have been) and de-randomized the process significantly.

But the bottom line is that you have people on this board who are upset about the changes to the process being "anti-Asian" and the main issue that they have with the changes is that they feel that eliminating the exam will somehow reduce the caliber of student that TJ admits. Thus, eliminating the exam is, in their eyes, "anti-Asian". I'm responding to those people, not to you. They are linking the exam with Asian-ness. They are linking "watering down the quality" with "reducing the number of Asians".

You sound pretty reasonable. The people who believe that any attempt to improve access to TJ is inherently "anti-Asian" are not.[/quote]

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