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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Did you and other Asian kids at TJ want more diversity? Just curious

Second student poster from before.

I am South Asian. I can tell you for sure that a good number of my Asian classmates did not want more diversity. A lot of them have younger siblings or family friends who are interested in TJ and it's a big thing in our community to share our experiences both with the school and the admissions process. I think when I was a freshman I honestly might have felt the same way - my parents have some feelings about Black people that are pretty backwards but that they don't think are racist, and I was raised with a lot of the same ideas. I think the biggest thing that changed my view, looking back, was hearing from the parents and my friends who wanted to fight against the changes - the things that they said about Black kids and poorer kids and their idea of "merit" started to sound really gross to me. I've always felt lucky to have been accepted to TJ, because a lot of my friends weren't. [/quote]

I doubt if this is a real south asian student and whether what he/she said about the parents are true or not.
I am an asian parent. Let me tell you what I think.
If TJ is supposed to support academically strong students, let's evaluate students from this angle. It doesn't matter what color the students are and how rich/poor the students are. 
I'm ok for TJ to increase some quotes to enhance diversity. But let's make things clear. How many students are admitted for merit and how many students are admitted for diversity. Don't mix everything up as the new admission does. 
The new admission process doesn't help with finding those students who are academically strong.

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PP. This is the “trying to be nice” way that our parents address things without thinking that they’re racist.

First of all, I’m not even in AP Gov yet but I know that racial quotas are illegal.

Second of all, you don’t know anything about TJ if you think it’s a good idea to openly identify students admitted because of diversity goals.

I’ll say this. Based on what you said, I absolutely believe you’re one of our parents.[/quote]

I didn't say "openly identify students admitted because of diversity goals". I mean let the students know the quote for merit and the quote for diversity. e.g. 400 for merit and 150 for diversity. They shouldn't be evaluated in the same way. merit is merit. Don't mix it with other things.[/quote]

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