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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Equity - so how much does FCPS spend not getting it right on the other end of the spectrum?  Are you prepared to take money from those programs?  Plenty SPED folks think the county isn't doing nearly what it should, but I never hear the argument of taking money away from those programs.  Wasn't "equity" the reason no one was allowed to learn for 4 weeks? 
 [b]And if some form of racial equity isn't happening, it's not bc of the TJ admissions process.  It's systemic in our society and until those issue are fixed.  If you are going single out TJ for not getting it right, there's a whole long list for FCPS to address.[/b]  At least to a very large extent, TJ IS working.[/quote]

You know the DOE Office of Civil Rights under Obama was looking into this, but nothing ever came of it, and now I doubt anything ever will.  [/quote]

Decisions around TJ should be made by FCPS in the first instance, not the Department of Education or the federal courts.  The School Board is the elected local body most accountable to the local citizenry for the decisions to overcrowd some schools while TJ only educates 1500 or so county students; to provide opportunities to TJ students that are denied to other students who would also benefit from their availability; and to oversee an admissions policy that, in effect if not design, [b]systematically[/b] has excluded non-Asian minorities from the school for decades.

But, if future appeals are made to federal authorities and the courts, one should not assume that they will be handled the same way as they would be handled by lame-duck Obama officials or the likes of Betsy DeVos.  It does not matter that inequality in our society is systemic and deep-rooted.  The issue is how operating a school like TJ perpetuates it. [/quote]

Can you present proof that kids are systematically excluded? Sounds like that your personal opinion.[/quote]

You only need to look at the data.  Not a heavy lift. [/quote]

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