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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lottery is wrong because

1.     [b]It will destroy TJ's ranking[/b]. A supporter in this thread mentioned "time to shut down TJ". I applaud her for honesty that FCPS board is not showing. The goal / definite 
        outcome  is to downgrade TJ to a normal good high school. If you look at the presentation FCPS superintendent made to the board, he listed some schools which are good and 
        use lottery as intake method. If you look at the rank of those schools, some are in 100, 600. If TJ starts lottery TJ will be one of those.

2.     "Merit" is a falsely used word here. Life only measures , rewards "preparedness for a role". Standardized test is very good (not perfect) at measuring it. Most other methods 
         cannot cite success over long time. Lottery does not even care for it. If someone disagrees we can measure. [b]Take 90% of students through admission test and take 10% 
          through lottery. Track their grades for 4 years and the colleges they went to. If the results converge then make lottery the process of admission.[/b]

3.      About 5% of TJ students finally selected has "Algebra 1" in 8th std. Rest are higher (Geometry 1, Trig etc.). For FCPS that means they were top percentile in Iowa Test. Now 
         Algebra 1 students will be more. Lowering standard again.

4.      If you look at the presentation FCPS superintendent made he mentioned what has been tried to admit more "economically disadvantaged" student. None of those are on 
         "improving the quality" side. Only action (outreach) that could have benefited them was curtailed. He kept on changing the structure of the test and of course did not get result.

This reminds of going to Iraq war :). Saddam was a bad person and removing him was a good goal. But Iraq war was the wrong choice. But this is what jingoism, zealots do. They focus on 1 topic and completely ignore everything else. Fortunately, people will not die if this passes. However, lot of hard work backed dreams will die. More importantly, an institution that took long time to build will die. 
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At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.[/quote]

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