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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

My fact is straight from the horse's mouth. The ones in the trenches. The teachers. Where are you pulling your facts to spin your agenda?[/quote]

Strongly doubt this. TJ teachers in the past have been quite public about their displeasure with admitted classes and this is not happening in today's environment. You also have plenty of recently retired teachers who would be able to speak about this matter with zero consequence if it were a thing that existed.

But "I heard" isn't going to cut it in a conversation like this, any more than "I heard the new process selected for merit instead of test buying" or "I heard the new classes are even stronger than the ones before because it's harder to cheat".[/quote]

You may have heard something from someone who told someone.  Not me, I talked to the teachers.
Ofcourse if it doesn't fit your agenda you can throw in an "I doubt".  Well that's not very factual is it? [/quote]

My "I doubt" is no less factual than your "I talked to the teachers" and can be treated equivalently. Except that I'm saying that an unlikely thing didn't happen while you're saying it did, so you've got a bit higher of a burden of proof on you.[/quote]

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