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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s fun to try to blame wealthy people as cheaters. That’s just a distraction and coping mechanism for the real issue. the real issue is URM test performance across the board, including at the new TJ. [/quote]

This isn't blaming wealthy people for cheating, the whole "asians only do better because they cheat" trope is a fairly tried and true racist trope that gets trotted out every time people point out asian academic achievement.  They conflate studying with cheating and call asians cheaters.  If wealth was really the dominant factor, there would be an overwhelming majority of white kids at TJ like there was 20 years ago, before the asians showed up.

[quote]For those against equity policies, the TJ admissions changes are showing in real time the results from PSAT to SOLs to math levels. And the results aren’t good.

Now I dont necessarily disagree with opening TJ for all, but let’s not pretend the URMs weren’t getting in before because cheaters. URMs perform measurably worse than their non-URM peers. Otherwise we wouldn’t be addressing those gaps all the time in various academic environs.[/quote]

That's the problem, we address the gaps but not the root causes of the gaps.

[quote]That still hasn’t changed. Yes even for URMs at TJ, the gaps still persist.[/quote]

They don't exist at stuyvesant where everyone sits the same test and the same standard is used to for admission regardless of skin color.[/quote]

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