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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=ntrainer]You have to start with the premise that FCPS has to (gasp!) abide by the court ruling. That means they cannot use the 1.5% minimum -- which is a quota by any other name -- and they cannot use the "Experience Factors." Those were clearly the two elements of the process which were judged unconstitutional.

At this point, they have the applications already in. No need to use an admissions test. No need for teacher recommendations. Admit the kids based on their "fit" for the school. Right now the SB needs to just DO THEIR JOB and give some advisory information to the admissions office in a chaotic situation. It need not be perfect advisory language. But it needs to be legal, and it needs to allow the process to move forward.[/quote]

If anyone reading this has a child who has applied to be a member of the TJ Class of 2026, please begin your advocacy right now for the School Board to come forward with a reasonable process. The judge has thrown out the current admissions plan and for them to have nothing clear to offer is malpractice. I think what I've said above is reasonable. In short: Throw out the 1.5% minimum per middle school, throw out the "Experience Factors," and then just tell the admissions office to admit the kids based on their evaluation of their existing applications, choosing those whose applications "fit" the mission of the school the best. That's it. The School Board can provide this kind of minimal guidance at this point and it would be enough.

This wouldn't require the Board to retreat on their positions about the admissions process in the short term, but it mops up the mess we have. Then they must start crafting a more complete process for next year's applicants. That process can be (and will be) a huge community discussion. But in the near term, please use your voice to advocate for just moving things along for the Class of 2026 in a reasonable way. They need to hear from us.[/quote]

Read the judge’s order.  It’s short and simple. What you suggest involves using pieces of the illegal admissions reform.  They cannot use any part of the new system.  [/quote]

Lottery it is then.  [/quote]

I would tend to agree. It would be the safest path for FCPS to simply use a lottery of the qualified, thus more or less ensuring a demographic distribution that mirrored the applicant pool.

I don't think that's the best solution, but in the event that a stay is not granted, I think it's the most likely outcome. Ironically, that would result in a final process that would be even LESS likely to fall in favor of the Plaintiffs, one of whom has already had two children admitted by both the old and the new process.

What you will absolutely NOT have - and what no further breath should be wasted on here - is a situation where no freshman class of 2026 is seated. That's not something that's within the realm of possibility.[/quote]

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