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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How pathetic School Board uses SES as a smoke screen to engage in racial balancing. Even more pathetic is the equity minion on this forum who keeps using SES disingenuously to disparage hardworking merit students.  [/quote]

Call me crazy, but I believe that underprivileged socioeconomic status and merit aren't mutually exclusive.

The problem is that you see only a narrow range of metrics by which you want to try to identify merit - and my guess is that that narrow range is one that happens to be favorable to you or your group in some way.

I don't think the new admissions process is perfect by any means, but the products of it are changing TJ for the better. Hopefully the new process will continue to be tweaked.[/quote]

Even the poorest communities in Virginia are considered privileged when compared to other parts the the country.  It is not "poverty" that is keeping these kids down.  It's laziness.  On average, [b]the past few incoming classes are putting in less effort than previous classes.[/b][/quote]

You're going to need to show your work on that one.[/quote]

It's just another far-right conspiracy theory with 0 evidence. Admission is race blind. Asians just happen to be the most represented since they apply in greater number.  This was true before the changes and still true afteward.[/quote]

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