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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just get rid of TJ entirely.  It is more trouble than it's worth and it sucks all the air out of the room.  It is beyond ridiculous that the current School Board spent as much time on TJ as it has already, and God knows that isn't going to change once everyone starts scrutinizing again who did and didn't get in under the revised admissions process.  [/quote]

It was much simpler when you had a test administered by TJ to gauge STEM aptitude and preparedness for TJ and took the highest scorers.  They just didn't like the outcome of a fair and equitable process.[/quote]

Two things you can choose to believe:

1) The process wasn't fair or equitable, which is why you haven't had enough Black students in the school's 35 year history to fill a half of a graduating class

2) The process is fair and equitable, and the lack of Black representation is due to some sort of deficiency among Black people with respect to STEM education

You believe one or the other.[/quote]

You are wrong - these are the options

(A) status quo that sucks
(B) push through Braband’s half baked solution for which adequate input has not been sought and the impact on the incoming class has not been considered (they will get the racial mix they seek but they do not know how teachers will relate to an atypical cohort of maybe more congenial but not as driven kids)
(C) take a couple of years and take everyone’s input - assess impact - run a merit lottery pilot for 50% of the seats and move forward.

(C) will result in a solution that will not be liked by all for sure but you will get everyone a hearing. That makes for an easier sell even if you have to push an uncomfortable sale.  But (B) is flashy and it is no coincidence it fits the approach of the radicals that run the school board.  [/quote]

I mean, that's a different question. My options related to the prior process, and it sounds like based on your (A) you tend to believe my (A). Is that fair?

Also, with respect to (c).... wouldn't surprise me if that's where they end up in a couple of years. Having admission to TJ be a moving target for a couple of years would probably do wonders for limiting the impact of prep.[/quote]

I agree with you on the outcome of your (A) ie we need more diversity.  The Braband process is scotch tape on a hose leak.  In a couple of years - parents who are driven will move residence across the county to maximize their shot at TJ and the racial mix of TJ will boomerang to exactly where we are today.  Those intervening 2 years will mess with how TJ functions.  The ambitious school board members will leverage this “success” and seek higher office.

The current process has unnecessarily unleashed race based acrimony (on all sides) to the benefit of the political class.  [/quote]

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