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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A quick google search is all that is needed .. https://www.fcps.edu/node/47920

SMH at the number of people who are spewing venom because that is what they are good at[/quote]

Is it true that 30 Longfellow kids got in out of 200 applicants versus 1 Whitman kid out of 2 applicants?

What is FCPS hiding by not releasing the number of applicants from each school?  [/quote]

Carson is the only FCPS middle school that has regularly had more than 200 applicants to TJ.  Its AAP program draws from ES feeders in multiple pyramids.

Whitman had about 420 8th grade students last year, so it would have been allotted 6 seats to TJ under the 1.5% formula  If at least 6 kids meeting the minimum requirements applied, at least 6 would have been admitted.  If only 2 applied, and they both met the minimum requirements, both would have been admitted. [/quote]

The 1.5% is a racist attempt to lower number of Asian American students admitted to TJ.

"Asian-American applicants are differently situated because they disproportionately attend a handful of gifted centers that have disproportionately high percentages of eligible applicants. These centers draw middle-school students from multiple schools who have scored highly on aptitude tests and offer them advanced classes. The 1.5% set-aside thus “disproportionately forces Asian-American students to compete against more eligible and interested applicants” attending these top gifted centers, rather than competing against all students." 
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The cap only applies to 50% of the selection, and they are race-blind. As the PP pointed out almost every applicant from Carson or Longfellow could be selected if they were in fact judged to be the top applicants.[/quote]

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