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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More inclusive, less prestigious. That’s the choice they made.[/quote]

It's possible this may be the case in the short term, but in the long term, the investment should pay off in the form of greater interest from a wider pool of applicants. It doesn't speak highly of TJ's real prestige that significantly fewer students applied for the Class of, say, 2024 than the Class of 2004. Most elite academic schools look for their application numbers to increase so that their school becomes MORE selective - not less. It's amusing to me that folks on this board feel like TJ is super-prestigious when entire segments of the population had no interest in applying for such a long time.

When you finally start seeing TJ's application numbers grow with the population of its catchment areas, you'll know that the school is becoming more prestigious.[/quote]

A lot of people buy lottery tickets, too, but that doesn't mean the people with the winning ticket are highly respected.

And is it really a good thing to encourage the kids who might be the role models at a Justice or Lewis to apply to TJ instead?  [/quote]

The lottery analogy is irrelevant as there is no lottery aspect to the adopted process that was used to put together the Class of 2025. The obviously more relevant analogy would be to elite schools that attract a high number of applications.

And yes, of course it's a good thing, because once they get to and succeed at TJ they will be the role models for the kids at Whitman and Key and Poe and Glasgow and wherever. For all that the status-quo clowns pretend to care about the pipeline and building from the ground up, having role models to look up to is one of the best ways to achieve that goal.[/quote]

It technically may not be a lottery, but there is a randomness introduced by the fact that less qualified kids will now be admitted to TJ because they happen to live in areas that haven't sent many kids to TJ in the past.

And the importance of role models arguably is much more important in a high school environment than in a middle school environment.

But maybe that's OK.  This has always been mostly about making TJ alumni feel better about attending a school that had gotten "too Asian" for their friend groups, and satisfying some School Board members and their cronies that they were getting their fair share of the TJ pork.  Calling the school environment "toxic" and demonizing the Asian kids who were working harder was a small price to pay.[/quote]

Pretty sure you filled the status quo bingo card there. Brutal.

More important in a high school environment than a middle school environment. Proves you know nothing about child development.

When you're in a hole, stop digging.[/quote]

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