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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great idea, but I need to question the rationale for limiting it to only these 3 schools. There are about 400 FRL kids at HB Woodlawn and Yorktown that get left out, while kids from $$$$ Aurora Hills and Lyon Village who have all the advantages but not top grades get the benefit. And wouldn’t we want people to seek transfers as needed to balance enrollment? This discourages that.

The implementation is going to have unintended and undesirable consequences. In the interest of being truly equitable, this program should be implemented district wide. GMU is a state school, affordable, and with an improving state and national profile every year. Good students from all types of families are choosing to go there. It’s not equitable to offer this program to some students and not others. [/quote]

Those poor HB and YHS kids. They never get a break.[/quote]

This is dumb.  There are some HB and YHS kids who need a break.  Is it fewer than the kids at the other high schools?  Sure.  [/quote]

But this isn't the purpose of the program. It is GMU's goal to increase representation in applications. YHS and HB don't really advance that goal. You advance that goal by targeting schools like WHS where 75% of students are non-white, not by targeting schools that are 25% white.

This is a GMU initiative and GMU has pursued this agreement with high-FRL schools across districts - this is not an APS initiative, nor is it APS-exclusive.

The students at YHS and HB have significant resources to help them succeed. Resources at schools like Wakefield are stretched way way farther and far more students overall need more breaks.[/quote]

Exactly. Wake and WL are two of the most diverse schools in the DMV. This helps GMU.[/quote]

What is this helping ? Why would gmu be helped?[/quote]

My guess is since WHS annd WL are very diverse by local standards, GMU hopes to increase underrepresented minorities. Especially now that Affirmative Action is no longer an option. Yorktown on the other hand is more or less your typical affluent high school in the dmv. [/quote]

Yorktown still has 10% or so FRL. FRL isn’t a perfect proxy for race. There are well off minorities who live were, as well as not so well off white people living in great grandma’s 1940’s rambler. But none of that matters because there’s also plenty of well off white kids who will get the benefit, too. [/quote]

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