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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support equity but not equity politics.  In the realm of equity politics, political gains are often achieved at the expense of the suffering of the target segment that they claim to uplift. The callous school board members are gambling with the lives of innocent students from poorly equipped middle schools and their less informed parents.[/quote]

So you feel things were better when only kids who could afford to buy the test answers got in?[/quote]

No one bought test answers, but I agree that many kids got in due to extensive prep rather than talent.  At least the heavily prepped kids are used to working their tails off, should already have some idea that they're still going to end up in the bottom half of TJ, and accept the fact that they will have worse college admissions than they would have at their base schools.  That's better than blindsiding a bunch of kids who thought they were well prepared for TJ.[/quote]
what is heavily prepped? is it like doing enrichment homework more than once? lol
DC does both academic enrichment as well as basketball, and we insist applying the concept of 'practice makes one perfect' to both.  Given how religious they are with basketball "homework", DC can now dunk over other kids.  Does handles twice and drops about a couple of hundred shots, previous evening and morning before the game. No prep, no ride to the game. lol, I came up with the rule.  With this kind of heavy prep, DC really cooks tough defenders.   
We are relatively humble when it comes to mentioning DC's academic achievements, but you get the idea.  Cooking!

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