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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are [b]MORE Asian students at TJ since the admissions change than almost any other year in the school’s history[/b].[/quote]

The people against the new admissions process aren't necssarily concerned about the number of asians so much as the quality of the students.
We are concerned that the racial disparity propelled FCPS to abandon merit in favor of chance to get a student body that more closely approximates the applicant pool.

[quote]Asian students still make up the [b]majority of students. More than all other groups, combined[/b].[/quote]
Yes.  
That is what majority means.  
Asians also make up a majority of the applicant pool, so if you are taking a cross section of the applicant pool then then you will likely end up with majority asians.

Edited prior post because of misplaced quotation mark.
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The acceptance rate for Asian applicants is still higher than average.

No discrimination, as declared by the courts. 
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The admissions process is facially neutral, just like literacy tests, poll taxes, voter ID laws and grandfather laws.
They were still racist as hell because the intent behind implementing them were racist.

The reason we moved away from a merit based admission process to a much more random system was to achieve the desired levels of racial diversity.
And like those racist attempts to deny black people the vote, this is an attempt to do indirectly what they could not do directly. 
We didn't need to abandon merit to increase socioeconomic diversity because we are allowed to explicitly favor poor kids (which we do)
We didn't need to abandon merit to increase special ed kids because we are specifically allowed to favor special ed (which we do)
We had to abandon merit to increase racial diversity because we are not allowed to explicitly favor people on the basis of race so we eliminate merit to catch a cross section of the applicant pool.[/quote]

The intent was to give access to more groups in FCPS, not just rich kids from feeders.

There were &lt;1% of students from low-income families in the admitted class of 2024.

They increased the class size to accommodate students from all over the county.

I’m all for a merit lottery. TJ is a resource for everyone, not just the rich families from feeder schools. [/quote]

Every kid already had access to TJ.  They just had to earn it.

Every kid is FCPS is allowed to tale Algebra 1 in 8th grade.  
Almost every kid is capable of getting a 3.5 GPA
We know how to filter for poverty without abandoning merit.  We only abandoned merit because we couldn't achieve diversity without abandoning objective merit.
TJ is no more a resource for everyone than handicapped parking spots are a resource for everyone.  
It is special ed and it is tailored for a particular type of student that needs this type of education and not a vehicle for white people to virtue signal their allyship.[/quote]

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