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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Do you think merit is equally distributed by race? 
There are cultural differences that generates more academic merit in some groups over others. [/quote]

Once again, babies do not choose the parents they are born to. A child does not have more “merit” because of the “cultural differences” of the family they just happen to be born into.

As a community, we need a school like to TJ to bring in the kids who truly need the education provided there. We particularly need to find the kids who have [b]not[/b] been born to families that “generate more academic merit.” Children born to families that encourage academics will do fine, no matter what their level of intelligence is. The bright children born to families that do not have the bandwidth to encourage academics are the kids who truly need a school like TJ.

Kids whose parents encourage academics already won the lottery. It’s the smart kids who didn’t win the lottery who truly need the education available at TJ. 
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You are not replacing the worst rich students with the best poor students.
You are replacing 50-80% of the students selected for merit with a random cross section of the applicant pool.

Poor kids are not incapable of doing well on standardized tests.
Stuyvesant high school in NYC is 40% free reduced lunch.
If you want more poor kids, make the admissions more test based, not less test based.

You have a gross misconeption of what TJ is.  
It is special ed for kids that are already accelerated, it's not a vehicle for becoming accelerated.
If the kid isn't accelerated by 8th grade, TJ isn't going to be much use to them, they will drown.

We know how to select for gifted poor kids, these changes were not designed to do that.  These changes were designed to select a cross section of the applicant pool.[/quote]

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