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race-blind admissions is a distraction. Seems like the real issue is purchasing admissions.[/quote]

And the way to stop purchasing admissions is to implement a per school quota?[/quote]

No, it's to remove the exam.[/quote]
This means the per-school quota which was implemented had nothing to do with the alleged cheating on an entrance exam.
They had some other goal in mind.[/quote]

Yes. It’s called making TJ more accessible for white families. White PTA moms that push their kids into AAP programs so they can brag, and now they want their kid attending TJ for the status symbol. The admissions changes had NOTHING to do with increase in URMs. It was only when the school was majority Asian and white kids could not compete head to head was drastic change called for. [/quote]
Yet, I haven’t heard any complaints from Asians about white kids taking their spots.  The have made a federal case out of the thought of Latino and Black kids taking spots they want though.[/quote]

The federal case does not make that point. When they increase the incoming class size from 480-550, they could have met their diversity goals from the extra 70 seats. They decided not to. The only group that was negatively impacted was the 'Asian' demographic because there are ant-Asian bigots in FCPS who feel that they are 'over-represented,' a racist dogwhistle because there is no such as thing as over representation of excellence,[/quote]

Given that cohort's outsized representation (under 20% of the county's pop having 70% of the TJ seats) that isn't much of a surprise.[/quote]

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