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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCPS doesn’t want an entrance exam for Walls.  The administration at the school is not strong and therefore does not push back on anything DCPS wants.  So there will not be an entrance exam again.  If you want one, start with pressuring DCPS.  They ultimately control that decision.[/quote]

Fine...then they should just use a GPA cutoff and a lottery. I am increasingly disturbed that a teacher just admitted they can determine "fit" based on this interview ESPECIALLY given that these have been video interviews during a pandemic.  Which kids were dealing with (or were simply nervous about dealing with) unstable Wifi or glitchy cameras on old laptops during their interviews? Which kids are self conscious about the backgrounds that might appear during their videos?  Would like to hear more about how Walls is thinking about equity while at the same time using these interviews to determine "fit" and "strong family support"...[/quote]

Basically they are weeding out the kids they think might be "assholes" I know some straight A kids who are also arrogant and dull, there are so many better kids than that out there and I do think teachers can get a good sense in a short interview, and anyway it is the only chosie they have.  Has anyone read "blink? [/quote]

I’m surprised more people don’t see the wildly obvious issues with this.  It’s 2022.  Have these people not seen any of the data on implicit bias and the enormous amount published about how companies with strong DEI initiatives are benefitting from a focus more on job requirements and merit instead of “ cultural fit”?  The data is clear - people who talk the most tend to get put in charge, regardless of merit.  People who smile more are believed to be more trustworthy.  The idea of a brief interview having so much weight is an invitation to discriminate against non-neurotypical people, introverts, girls, public school kids, poor kids, kids not yet comfortable talking to adult authority figures, homeless kids, English learners.  The list goes on.

Who possibly thinks this is a good idea?[/quote]

This, this, 100 times this.  [/quote]

Completely agree. This whole idea that people involved in the process will say out loud that a 2 minute interview is helpful because they can determine if someone is a good "fit" is insane. If someone in my place of work wrote those words on an interview review form it would immediately be flagged by the HR team and the employment legal team. We would have to paper back over that written feedback and then the interviewer would be coached and probably not permitted to interview until s/he had gone through DEI training.

There are no easy answers to these issues. [b]But I am perplexed at people who object to a test because of bias somehow being OK with standardless "fit" assessments. "Not a good fit" is how women and diverse candidates were kept out of positions of power for centuries[/b]. [/quote]

Couldn't agree more. [/quote]

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