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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great idea, but I need to question the rationale for limiting it to only these 3 schools. There are about 400 FRL kids at HB Woodlawn and Yorktown that get left out, while kids from $$$$ Aurora Hills and Lyon Village who have all the advantages but not top grades get the benefit. And wouldn’t we want people to seek transfers as needed to balance enrollment? This discourages that.

The implementation is going to have unintended and undesirable consequences. In the interest of being truly equitable, this program should be implemented district wide. GMU is a state school, affordable, and with an improving state and national profile every year. Good students from all types of families are choosing to go there. It’s not equitable to offer this program to some students and not others. [/quote]

Those poor HB and YHS kids. They never get a break.[/quote]

This is dumb.  There are some HB and YHS kids who need a break.  Is it fewer than the kids at the other high schools?  Sure.  [/quote]

But this isn't the purpose of the program. It is GMU's goal to increase representation in applications. YHS and HB don't really advance that goal. You advance that goal by targeting schools like WHS where 75% of students are non-white, not by targeting schools that are 25% white.

This is a GMU initiative and GMU has pursued this agreement with high-FRL schools across districts - this is not an APS initiative, nor is it APS-exclusive.

The students at YHS and HB have significant resources to help them succeed. Resources at schools like Wakefield are stretched way way farther and far more students overall need more breaks.[/quote]

Exactly. Wake and WL are two of the most diverse schools in the DMV. This helps GMU.[/quote]

What is this helping ? Why would gmu be helped?[/quote]

My guess is since WHS annd WL are very diverse by local standards, GMU hopes to increase underrepresented minorities. Especially now that Affirmative Action is no longer an option. Yorktown on the other hand is more or less your typical affluent high school in the dmv. [/quote]

GMU And underrepresented minorities don’t go in the same sentence. They aren’t lacking a minority demographic among students. [/quote]

I didn’t closely look at demographics of area schools before. W-L actually has more white students than many if not most Northern Va high schools. So it appears that GMU wants to boost the enrollment of students who are lower income. So they are after [b]socio-economic diversity[/b] in particular. This is a good program that targets certain schools. [b]It is unfair though that similar students at Yorktown can’t benefit. [/b][/quote]

So exactly the kind is student who would struggle to pay for GMU or any in state tuition bc there is very little aid provided to in state students

I mean come on - GMU doesn’t need these students and the reason they are offering this is not bc they are trying to recruit anyone. It’s just a feel good community thing and there is likely some money each side is making or some tax break or incentive being realized in this partnership.

The students who will benefit are those whose parents are upper middle class but their grades were not that great and they aren’t headed to a top school but their parents were worried they were not headed to any school. At least this is a reasonable college option for this area.[/quote]

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