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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not Asian but I hope they fight back. In my city, our number 1 magnet has a high Asian population. Similar things are happening with the admissions process. However, a large percentage of the Asian population have parents who are poor immigrants. People keep throwing the word "privilege" around. I am mot sure how being a poor immigrant and probably a high percentage are not documented make you privileged. [/quote]

Privilege doesn’t only refer to the amount of money someone has. There are lots of ways to be advantaged that don’t involve money at all. Kids have no say in what family they are born to and shouldn’t be penalized for that fact. 
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Don’t black parents at least speak English? She me Asian parents are not fluent in English so that would put them at a disadvantage. [/quote]
Why does that matter? If the kid speaks fluent English, it's a non-issue. It's the kid who is applying, not the parent. [/quote]

Because the entire argument for changing the admissions system at TJ was that Asian parents were privileged and URM parents were not privileged. That’s why. [/quote]

But the evidence demonstrated that the board's goal was actually to increase *racial* diversity, not socio -economic diversity.  ALL this equity bullshit would do better to frame all their standards as socio-economic. They'd suffer much less pushback AND actual stand a chance of being constitutional in their actions.

That’s not “the entire argument”. That’s not part of the argument at all. The argument was only a handful of black, Hispanic, and economically-disadvantaged kids were getting in each year.

What about economically-disadvantaged and English-learning Asian students? They benefit from the new admissions process.

[i]The Asian American community is an incredibly diverse group, and the revised admissions process benefits all students, including Asian American students who are low-income or English language learners, a fact that the Coalition for TJ ignores,” said Niyati Shah, AAAJ (Asian Americans Advancing Justice). 
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If you go beyond the comments and look at the actual process, it has the largest impact on students from low-income families (of all races).

Applicants get bonus “points” for being low-income, English learners, and coming from unrepresented middle schools. And seats are set aside for all middle schools - even the poor ones.

They also added more seats this year to open up to more kids. 
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