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If you think the previous process was race blind you can pick that mic back up and explain how you rationalize that[/quote]

In a sense it was race blind, or at least it wasn't created, by design, to boost particular asian enrollment.  Strangely enough (or not), white kids are underrepresented relatively to the population as a whole at TJ.   You'd have to be delusional to think the previous admission process was created to boost asian kids at the expense of white (and black/latino) kids.  The new process is specifically designed to boost enrollment of black and hispanic kids.  The massive overrepresentation of asian kids at magnet schools is not local phenomena, the same is true at magnet schools around the country.    Stuyvesant, for example, is 72% asian.  Whether thats actually a problem or not is a matter of opinion, but it's factually incorrect to believe the previous process was designed to boost asian kids in the way the new process is intended to boost black and hispanic enrollment.[/quote]

People always figure out how to game a system.  And then you need to try to address however it's being gamed.  Of course, those who have figured out how to game it are going to be upset when the rules then change.  So instead of seeing the new process as a way to just boost black and hispanic enrollment, why not see it as a way to get closer to the goal of making the opportunities offered by TJ available to all of its residents?

This is the same thing that's trying to be had at Walls.  It's supposed to be a citywide school, but it basically looks like a Ward 3 and Ward 6 school.[/quote]

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