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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Throw the bums on the fairfax school board out![/quote]

Oh, I know! It's so awful they made it so the top kids at moderate-income schools can now compete with the wealthy schools. It's so tragic that TJ is no longer exclusively for the rich because they're letting in the highly-qualified poors now. [/quote]

Kids at moderate schools are not just able to compete (they could do that before since nobody was stopping them) but they have an unfair advantage which was a part of plan designed to reduce Asian numbers. That is the problem.[/quote]

That's not true.  Kids at the low income schools got a huge benefit.  Kids at the moderate income schools got screwed and have the lowest acceptance rates among all schools.  Take Katherine Johnson MS.  Two of the schools feeding into it are Title I, two are wealthy, and half of the kids there were educated at the Title I schools.  It doesn't have all of the strong EC programs, Algebra II in house, or special geometry classes like Longfellow or Carson, but it also didn't get any kind of boost for being an underrepresented school since it's an AAP center.  It hit only the minimum 1.5% allotment.  There are many kids there who were educated in Title I classrooms, aren't quite poor enough to be FARMS, but definitely don't have the resources for prep, tutoring, or enrichment, and effectively had zero chance of being admitted to TJ.   [/quote]

You are referring to most Asians. Asians are mostly moderate income families. [/quote]

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