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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Federal court found with proof that it’s discrimination against Asians. Can anyone on this forum give process that there was No discrimination and that federal court is wrong. Evidence and facts are appreciated here. [/quote]

No one is arguing about the evidence, the question is whether or not the law was correctly applied. If this case stands, desecration is de facto unconstitutional because it will always have a disproportionate effect on whatever race is dominant in the institution being desegregated. [/quote]

[b]I don't think most of the complaints are targeted towards boards decision to improve the admission process. It is the specific targeted changes and the manor in which the board pushed the changes. Its inevitable that any improvements will negatively effect the dominant group and thats not an issue here. Contrary to what many are interpreting, this is not what people are angry about. [/b]

Just get rid of the other experience factors (a.k.a. free bonus points), remove attending school based quotas and everyone will be fine even if it ends up with lower asians. If the board insists on quotas, keep it a school pyramid level or at least do it based on 'base' middle schools so it won't discriminate against AAP ex: allocate half of the seats equally among each school pyramid and keep the other half in an open pool for all. Very few will complain about it.

Personally, I would like to have a tricky to prep test like olympiads, teacher referrals and gpa combined into a relatively difficult admission process. But apparently, this would lead to even more asians than we currently have, so it was a no go from the start. Oh well :) 
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So.... no. The bottom line is that you have two groups that are at odds with one another:

1) FCPS and the School Board, which, for better or for worse, sees a problem with the composition of the school across whatever metrics

2) A "parent group" supported by dark money that is seeking to use TJ as a test case to invalidate the idea of affirmative action in all academic areas.

There are individuals (presumably, like you) who profess to be more worried with how things were done than what was done, but the reality is that the major thrust behind C4TJ are people who want to preserve their ability to use their resources and enthusiasm for TJ to give their children advantages in the admissions process.

They want an admissions process that is completely transparent and objective so that they can mold their children to check the respective boxes - which invariably results in a student body that is very similar to one another, perhaps along racial lines but certainly in terms of goals, ambitions, and interests.[/quote]

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