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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should still allow 20% of the students from each region. They can do it using the application process but each region in FCPS should receive 20% of the slots.[/quote]

It’s not good enough for the School Board members who know some pyramids within a region have stronger students than others. [/quote]

Something has to give.  This is a lot better than a lottery.

But it all starts in elementary school - that is where the resources should be spent.

There is a fight for the really talented URMs by the time you get to high school - regional privates, boarding schools, etc.  If they are talented and financially constrained, they can go to these schools for free.  They are much better represented in those schools.  [/quote]

You all are ignoring the other elephant.

The culture of the school needs to be fixed. A change in admissions to a lottery would accomplish this. If not a lottery, then a different change will be needed.[/quote]

Really?  What's wrong with the culture?  And how is telling the URMs the only way they'll get into TJ is if there's a random lottery supposed to improve things?  [/quote]

Because the reason that there are so few URMs at TJ is because they don't want to go there, not because there are no qualified URMs. In its current form, it is unattractive. [/quote]

That must be why at the schools that don't have the terrible culture of TJ the percentage of URMs enrolled in challenging courses is much lower than the percentage of Asian and white kids. [/quote]

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