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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For parents that went to info sessions, at ours when answering a question they said that a student has better chance to get accepted at MIT and Harvard if stay at base school than to compete against all the other TJ kids. Know that is speculated in posts here on DCUM, but I was surprised when it was said by to room of people. Is it a new talking point? I would have thought would just be silent on that and especially to not name any schools. [/quote]

Session we attended was… odd. It seemed more of a don’t apply session. Cannot even fully say why, but felt like our school was a stop they had to but did not want to do. People that were going to apply will still apply, but was still weird.[/quote]

They are trying to dissuade applications from the traditional feeder schools, while increasing the number of applicants from schools who usually send few to no students to TJ.

It’s all about diversity.[/quote]

That sounds more like another paranoid delusion.[/quote]

Wait:

- are you claiming the prior school board did not alter the TJ admissions requirements for diversity reasons?

Because, they altered admissions for racial diversity reasons.    That is not a “paranoid delusion.”  That is a fact.[/quote]

Aside from their public statements, their internal emails and personal text messages.  You have no evidence of that.
Well, there was also the study they commissioned specifically to figure out the best ways to increase racial diversity at TJ.  But aside from those things, you have no evidence.
NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVAH!!![/quote]

Evidence, there is!

[img]https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/1-1-1536x864.png[/img]

Like I said, no evidence other than "public statements, their internal emails and personal text messages"
Oh and the study they commissioned to figure out how to get specific racial compositions.
So aside from that evidence, there is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL![/quote]
Other than racial discrimination, there is no discrimination at all![/quote]

I have to agree. The idea there's any racial discrimination is preposterous.  Asian enrollment is currently at a historic high, and the largest beneficiaries of the process change were low-income Asians. Further, admission data shows that all racial cohorts are admitted within a few percent of each other based on the admission-to-application ratio. Selection by law is race-blind, and even the right-leaning SCOTUS wouldn't even take the C4$TJ case.[/quote]

The TJ program is legal and I very much support the 1.5% rule but it is NOT true that Asian enrollment is at an all time it. It is still extremely high both as a percentage of the school and in proportion to Asian students in NOVA but it was slightly higher in the classes before the reform. [/quote]

I don't know if the Tj program is legal but how is it different from literacy tests, poll taxes and grandfather laws when those were first enacted?  They were all facially neutral but put in place for racist reasons.
Doesn't the motive behind the change matter, especially if it yields the sort of racial consequences it set out to create?[/quote]

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