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Keep the allotment (maybe tweaked to account for center schools) if your woke sensibilities requires it but bring back objective testing so that we don't send these unprepared kids into the deep end of the pool.[/quote]

What if the testing results would leave allotted seats unfilled from a school? [/quote]

Same thing that happens now but possibly to a greater extent.  
The unallotted seats go back to the general pool.
If you wanted to relax the standards for those schools i would be OK with that as long as the families know where their kid stands in relation to the rest of the class.

[b]Class of 2025 was a disaster.[/b]  All these families that basically got in through a lottery thought their kids were qualified because everybody kept telling them "you belong here" and then they showed up and started getting C's
Not every schools fills their allotment right now because families realize that getting in doesn't mean shit from their school and they are trying to figure out if their kid is really a good fit or just a sacrifice to the diversity gods.[/quote]

This is a complete overreaction to what happened with 2025.

Their numbers were a touch off from previous classes but otherwise, they were a coherent, fun class that dealt with a staggering amount of abuse that they didn't deserve.

They didn't choose the method by which they were selected, but they were still vilified by a lot of really sad, pathetic adults in this community when they were [b][i]14 frickin' years old.[/b][/i]

They deserved better and there's no reason to continue to bash them in service of your narrative with respect to an outcome that is done and no longer up for debate. The admissions process might get tweaked somewhat - indeed, it already has - but the tweaks aren't going to come as a response to anything that goes on in here and the Fairfax GOP is not a serious enough entity to put up School Board candidates that will have any hope of winning elections in 2027. The Dems course corrected and returned relative moderates to the Board in the 2023 elections.

Stop harassing and bullying kids.[/quote]

[b]The SAT score for the class of 2025 dropped by 80 points from 1520 to 1440[/b].
This is AFTER over 50 students returned to their base school.

FCPS board set many of them up for failure.
The admissions process was fine before but if you are going to change, then rushing it through the way they did almost guaranteed the disaster we ended up with.

The FCPS board is still run by woke far left liberals.[/quote]

For the millionth time - so what?

You folks quote this stat ad nauseam as if it's of any consequence on its own. It's not. It doesn't make a single argument for you.

Yes, when you stop overselecting for test taking ability, scores are going to drop from otherworldly to excellent. Congratulations.

But no one has made an argument for why those SAT scores matter that isn't circular.[/quote]

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