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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]

Can someone explain how 'Asian' becomes a race identification? The Indians and east Asians don't look like and have different cultures. They bring just as much diversity. North Indians are probably part whites at the DNA level. If we are following FCPS's racial agenda here -- the Indians should not be lumped into this manufactured 'Asian' race, and the FCPS's race 'problem' will be solved. If you look at the world as large, TJ's race and ethnicity roughly mirror the world's demographics. Indo-European is about half with east asian a quarter. Africans are less represented for sure, but that could be solved by using the extra 70 seats exclusively for URMs.

This entire 'reform' is racist as ****.[/quote]

Indians are FAR more overrepresented at TJ than East Asians. FAR FAR FAR.[/quote]

An earlier post cited it quite well. The new admission process is Racist As F_k!
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Maybe so, but you could look at the results of the old one and see that was too.  Any person with integrity can appreciate the effort to try to reverse it.[/quote]

The old process was very classist too. It favored just the people who invested big $$$ in prep.  The new one isn't perfect but at least it's a little little bit more diverse.[/quote]

+1[/quote]

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