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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Asked in another thread.... What exactly is the legal rationale for challenging the lottery system?[/quote]

there isn't one. No group has an intrinsic right to a certain number of seats at a school. A suit against tj going to a lottery would fare about as well as white parents calling desegregation race based discrimination [/quote]

In your wet dream. Just wait a year or two. [/quote]

the sense of entitlement is hilarious. [b]No one in public school is guaranteed a TJ level education, if you want to ensure you kids gets it, pay for a comparable private[/b] [/quote]

This sentiment swings both ways.[/quote]

which leaves the elected board to make the decision as long as they do so within legal confines- a race blind lottery fits that description [/quote]

What is the difference between a race blind (all students) lottery and merit (  3.5 GPA is merit or average ) lottery ? 70 to 80% of students will have 3.5 GPA. 14,000 to 17,000 students will apply for lottery admission (below 5% acceptance rate)..  How will parents ever explain to a child why they were not chosen and another child with lower GPA? This proposal is outrageous and unfair. The loser can be from any race , teased for having higher GPA .. but he thinks bad in his entire life. Do you think the another kid who won lotter would be happy and self respect ?

Please think .. come up with better solution ..

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