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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am curious how many students were accepted that live in ward 7 or 8 but didn't go to middle school there.  Maybe part of the issue is that students from wards 7 or 8 who are academically inclined are looking for middle schools elsewhere.  Is that really Walls' fault?[/quote]

Huh?  First it’s a high school.  Second, they screen out kids with IEPs (which is illegal).  They screen out kids in wards 7 and 8.  What else is there to know?[/quote]

What evidence do you have that kids in these Wards are screened out?  [/quote]

I don’t think it’s the group being discriminated against that needs to present more evidence. [/quote]

You need to verify that discrimination occurred.  [b]How do you know that kids from Ward 7 and 8 applied?[/b]  Maybe the “ward unknown” kids are largely from Ward 7 and 8 and previously sought better schooling at charters?

Without more information, it’s bs to insist that students from Ward 7 and 8 are discriminated against.

What is surely true is:

— Walls admissions is super subjective.

— Wards 7 and 8 need better schools and, especially, more social services from early childhood on, so more of the students are prepared for competitive schools.[/quote]

Oh my god. Again, from the Post article: “According to the school system, [b]50 students attending the five neighborhood schools in Wards 7 and 8 applied to be part of the incoming freshmen at Walls. Overall, 138 students living in the two wards applied.[/b]” But “Just three eighth graders at middle schools in Wards 7 and 8 — Hart, Johnson, Kelly Miller, Kramer and Sousa middle schools — made the cut of 500 students and accepted interviews, according to city data.” And “Preliminary data shows the new freshman class includes four students from Wards 7 and 8.” [/quote]

You’re right — I was responding to PP and didn’t read the article.  It still holds that it's not clear that discrimination is the problem as opposed to an the kids being underserved in earlier life.[/quote]

Again - discrimination suggests that an admissions officer looked at the addresses of those 138 kids and tossed their application in the trash based on that.  And solely on that.   If the qualifications were reviewed and were rejected on that basis - then no, that isn not discrimination.   Sorry.    [/quote]

I could see you raising discrimination concerns if 138 students in those wards made the gpa cutoff but didn’t get in through the interview.  But only a handful made the gpa cutoff.  That is a quantitative measure-  take the students with the top 500 gpas and interview them.  How is that discrimination?  It is race and gender blind.[/quote]

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