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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]

Right. pp here. The use of attending school instead of base school along with ‘other’ experience factors and reduced to weight for gpa is ‘cleverly’ designed to suppress certain demographic groups. From what read, 300 points for entire middle school gpa, 300 points for one freaking essay (grading is very subjective), 300 points for portrait sheet (and subjective and does it actually test STEM or wrong skills?) and 300 points for other experience factors. Kids from academic focused families essentially zero in other factors as per the design, get penalized for being in AAP and even their hard work in school is dumbed down due to gpa weight. It can be twisted in way you want, but this is the truth and only ‘affected’ will see the intent and others think it is still ok as someone else is benefiting etc.

This is the reason, purely focusing on gpa and teacher recommendations is significantly better and fair to everyone even with geographical allocations (as long as aap isn’t penalized). Simply put,

“allocate half based on base school or school pyramid and other half from an open pool based on gpa and teacher recommendations”

It’s quite simple and fair to everyone and hardly anyone would complain with above, but of course school board isn’t looking for fairness as it was never the intent to begin with. Wish more people realize this.

Note: personally, I would prefer a test as it removes all the bias and even with the test we can still allocate half to base schools or school pyramids and half in open pool. But, since the test can be heavily prepped, I can live with the above alternative as it’s still reasonably fair to me. [/quote]

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