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[quote=Anonymous]if you understand statistics, its not that hard to come up with a classification that is proxy to the race with out actually saying the word 'race'. This is very similar to voter suppression efforts as you may not find anything explicit in the law, but you will find that there are certain restrictions that overwhelmingly affect specific groups such as minorities, students etc. (ex: reducing poling locations, voting hours, early voting/mail-in, only allow certain type of photo ids and/or making it a little harder to get photo ids just to name a few).

In case of TJ admission changes, its no secret that attending school base quotas (not base school) and all of the bonus points given to 'other' experience factors are specifically designed to suppress kids who go to AAP centers and do not qualify for reduced meals. From what I read, new admissions are based on 1200 points where 300 comes for entire GPA (all core courses), 300 from single math/science essay, 300 from portrait sheet and remaining 300 comes from other factors such as under represented schools, esol, reduced meals etc. So, the AAP center kids who do not qualify for reduced meals max out at 900 in the point based system and hope best that their points are enough to compete. This affect is even dramatic for schools like Carson, which is predominantly AAP (ie., 67% of school or about 500 kids from each grade are in AAP) and represents entire north western part of Fairfax county and Carson is treated just like any other non-AAP school in the county. Rocky Run and Longfellow are very similar. These schools do get spill over seats, but we can clearly see which specific schools were negatively affected. FCPS knows that this geographic area is popular for working/middle/upper-middle class parents who tend to focus on academics and asians do represent a good percent. Judge had enough proof to agree that changes were racially motivated. [/quote]

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