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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are such total idiots.  Once they start setting aside seats for so-called “top performers” they are basically admitting their lottery is a complete sham intended only to change the racial composition.  And TJ being TJ the students and parents will try to reverse engineer the admissions and figure out which kids got in as “top performers“ and which ones were lottery admits.

Brabrand is the worst superintendent we’ve ever had.  He has an uncanny ability to come up with stupid proposals that make no sense. This is the TJ equivalent of the “hybrid model” all over again, and we all know how that worked out.

He should just leave now.[/quote]

I'm completely in agreement that Brabrand has shown himself to be not good, for any number of reasons (whether his replacement would be any better, or just an idiot of a different breed, would be the topic of a separate discussion).  I certainly haven't convinced myself that the current plan is any good, yet.  However, I think you're arguing from a place of passion rather than reason, because I don't agree with most of your rationale:

1. "they are basically admitting their lottery is a complete sham intended only to change the racial composition" - they aren't "basically" admitting it, that's the stated purpose of it.  That's what they want to have happen.  If it succeeds (far from a guarantee because there are a lot of things not considered), then they've achieved partial success.  If it succeeds without destroying what TJ fundamentally is (a far more dubious proposition), then they've completely succeeded.

2. "parents will try to reverse engineer the admissions [to figure out how to be one of the top 100]" - that's true whether it's the top 100 or the top 500, so it's neither an indictment or endorsement of the current proposal.

3. Yes the hybrid in-person plan was a fiasco.  Yes, we can also associate the word "hybrid" with this idea.  That's a fairly superficial association.  There's nothing wrong with "hybrid" in and of itself.  The much stronger criticism is that it's the same group of minds behind both of them, and that group of minds hasn't shown itself to be good in the past.[/quote]

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