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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one really cares if the proposed changes were clearly intended to remove the barriers for under represented groups. But, from the very start board made changes to explicitly reduce asian kids and even joked/admitted to it in their internal communications. Attending school based quotas instead of base school (even some board members expressed concerns about it), unweighted GPA (its easier to score better GPA by taking easier bare min route), removal of the initial screening test (not a bad thing), removal of teacher recommendations, significant weightage given to essays (subjective and tests writing skills more than STEM), a lot of weightage to additional experience factors (educated/working families in good neighborhoods will essentially score '0' points) etc are all specifically designed to hurt asian kids. This is almost like all the new rules around voter restrictions  :)

Instead, focus on how to generate interest for STEM in under represented groups and only count the factors that kids can accumulate during the normal school and/or with out additional expense. So, fee paid summer school or any other expensive after school activities such as computer/math/science tests shouldn't be factored in as not all kids can afford them. However, being in AAP, advanced math or participating in school offered STEM activities should considered. I am sure that by 5th grade almost all the kids who deserve to be AAP or advanced math will make it either by testing or teacher/principal placement, so school offered advanced course work should be factored in. It may be ok reserve a min number of seats to each geographic area, school pyramid or 'base' (definitely not attending) school provided some criteria is met, but shouldn't be obvious that under performing kids will sneak in. It was a mistake to remove teacher recommendations as teachers generally more about kids than some random person grading essays. If TJ is not supposed to be a magnet school and not required to serve the best and brightest, then we should just dissolve it and simply enhance base schools with advanced course selections that every kid could take advantage of. Quotas (ex: 20% asians should get 20% TJ seats) are racist as hell and bad for the merit which leads to infighting more than anything and leads to significant resentment among different groups of students and they feel one group is more deserved than the other. If kids from an under represented group don't perform well or unable to compete with others, they may get isolated and/or looked down upon. Coming from a country with race based quotas, I have experienced this first hand. I hope we don't end up like that. 
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This belongs on the other thread.

THIS thread is about the kids that applied for the class of 2026 and what is happening with that process.  [/quote]

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