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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Under the new proposal, we can sending the message to the kids that hard work does not matter, life is random.  No more try harder and don't give up ...[/quote]

Under the current policy, we are sending the message to non-Asian kids that they aren't as smart, don't work as hard, and don't deserve the same opportunities as the Asian kids who attend the right middle school feeders, know the right teachers, and take the best prep courses. [/quote]

Again, not all Asian kids go to Curie and prep.  My kid didn't, and she was not from Carson or Longfellow and certainly didn't know the "right teachers".  Stop the hate!![/quote]

I would say that the hate is on display when the immediate response to the proposal is to suggest that certain kids don't belong at TJ and never will.  [/quote]

This change will be struck down by the court:

"Conservatives see their best shot in decades to get rid of race in college admissions, and they’re taking it.

As protesters across the U.S. rage against policies and practices that target African Americans, Latinos and other minorities, some of the nation’s most prestigious universities are fighting a raft of legal challenges accusing them of unfairly weighting the admissions process against Asian-American and White applicants.

Yale and Harvard are set to respond this week to two of those challenges as two more make their way through the courts. The multiple efforts to defeat race-conscious admissions, including by President Donald Trump’s Justice Department, could spur an increasingly conservative Supreme Court to revisit the process, even as the U.S. is embroiled in its fiercest struggle over race and privilege since the 1960s.

The Justice Department has threatened to sue Yale unless it agrees to stop considering race. “Unlawfully dividing Americans into racial and ethnic blocs fosters stereotypes, bitterness, and division,” the government wrote to the university in August. Yale, which has vowed to “vigorously defend” a process “endorsed repeatedly by the Supreme Court,” is due to respond this week.

On Wednesday, Harvard goes before a federal appeals court over a case that it engages in “racial balancing” by holding Asian-American applicants to a higher standard than other minority groups. Harvard denies discriminating and won the case in federal district court last fall."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/harvard-and-yale-face-broad-attack-on-race-conscious-admissions[/quote]

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