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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Percent total of Asians will obviously go down, mathematically, because there are many middle schools where there are very few Asians. If more Asians moved to other middle schools instead of primarily concentrating in Rocky Run, Carson, and Cooper, then the Asian percentage will go up again.[/quote]

Replace "Asians" in your quote with some other races and swap out the school names and then maybe you'll understand how not race-blind the change is.  Well, other than the fact that you are choosing to not understand and throwing out statements like this one is the best you can do.

I don't care either way - no interest in sending any of my kids to TJ.  But to pretend this change didn't have an agenda they can't admit publicly is asinine.[/quote]

The changes absolutely had an agenda that they have been very public about admitting - FCPS wanted to open access to TJ to students from all schools within the catchment area and to students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.

The impact of this has been that now, pretty much any sufficiently motivated student can dream about attending TJ regardless of whether or not they were selected for AAP or ended up within a narrow range or schools.

And the school is fairly obviously better off for it.[/quote]
Actually, it just shows that their own processes in advanced academics are failing to lift up URMs, so they just resorted to giving spots away. It’s pretty much proof that the county can’t close the achievement gap.[/quote]

Bring AAP services to all FCPS schools and that will take care of this issue. Can we all agree on that?[/quote]

Currently, LLIV is rolling out to every elementary school.  Before that, every student was evaluated for Level IV at every FCPS school and, if admitted, provided transportation to a center school.

We are agreed.  [/quote]
Right but URM representation in AAP lagged and still lags which indicates that either the system can’t identify the requisite number of kids or they don’t exist in large enough numbers? This is evidenced in TJ admissions prior to the change. But rather than starting from the ground up they just made it as easy as possible to give URMs access. The AAP indicators still exist.[/quote]

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