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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand why is this so hard to implement some process that is not subject to discrimination. The new changes are cleverly crafted so on paper, it may sound fine, but clearly intended to punish kids from academic focused families.

I don’t mind no testing, but why can’t we simply use grades from regular school years and may be teacher recommendations to allocate some min seats to each school pyramid or base school (so aap centers are not at disadvantage) and fill remaining from an open pool? There won’t be any bias here, but of course board clearly wanted to punish certain groups. 
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How is this different from the current process?  
They implemented the minimum seats to reduce the Asian numbers.  Use geography as a proxy for race.  
I'm not familiar with details of each school to know how good this is a proxy for race, though I know you can look at apartment prices in Herndon and identify the school ratings from that.[/quote]

It uses the Base school, not the attending school.  Very very different from the new process and will not penalize kids that went to the AAP center.

I do like the PP ‘s idea to not seat the class of 2026 until next year and just expand the numbers that they admit for the sophomore and Junior rounds. There are so many kid that could benefit from the offerings at TJ and almost no freshmen take the TJ-only classes.   [/quote]

It’s a really elegant solution.  This would also likely be supported by Youngkin’s depart of education (who has tweeted support for the lawsuit) AND the Coalition for TJ.  Give everything a year to shake out might be best.  [/quote]

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