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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One possible approach

1. 25% seats to a rigorous testing process. But use something that is a little more difficult to game.

2. 25% pure lottery based on certain cutoffs to GPA.

3. 25% to Teacher/Principal nominations at the local middle school level. Citizenship type activities, etc would likely be rewarded.

4. 25% to those with outstanding Sports/Arts/etc.

Gives a nice balance and I would guess also make it more diverse racially.

No admissions process is without drawbacks but by dividing the pool this way, there is less chance of being gamed.[/quote]

There could have been many approaches that could work but where was the input sought?  It is naive to assume that any eventual solution will not have detractors but at least they would be inclusive in their approach and would not have unleashed the the race-baiting monster we have seen on these boards.  But crowdsourcing ideas never got mileage for any politician - our upwordly mobile school board wants the glory of being the ones that pushed through the most radical and progressive change in the history of FCPS.  Else why the hurry?[/quote]

They did have to come up with something this year and an exam wasn't realistically an option given the limitations from COVID. I don't know that community input would have been of great help to creating a sound process given the sort of comments you read on boards like this from the race-baiting status quo monster that you referenced.[/quote]

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