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“The bottom line is the (TJ) policy was adopted in order to, frankly, reduce the number of Asian Americans that were attending Thomas Jefferson,” Sen. Chap Petersen said. “And all you have to do is look at all the public comments that were being made at the time.”[/quote]

You do realize this was already illegal? And nobody used race as a factor.[/quote]
Try to understand proxy discrimination, you racist dumbass![/quote]

Providing access to kids who don't go to wealthy middle schools is really horrible.

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Except that you didn’t.[/quote]

That is exactly what the new plan does. 
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No. What the new plan did was to discriminate Asian Americans as ruled by the federal court. This is also confirmed by the VA house bill that was just passed.[/quote]
The new process opened seats to [b]unqualified[/b] kids across FCPS -- even low-income middle schools. TJ is a [b]governor school[/b] - it wasn't set aside for [b]racial discriminations[/b]. 
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The admitted applicants are qualified. GPA was higher than previous classes.

The process shouldn't support discrimination against race or income. When only 0.6% of a class is economically-disadvantaged you know there is a problem.

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Your lies have been debunked numerous times in this forum. Repeating lies won't make them true.[/quote]

Sorry you have trouble with basic facts: 
"The average GPA for applicants (3.9074) is slightly higher this year than it has been in the past five years. "
"Economically disadvantaged students increased from 0.62% (2020-21) to 25.09%."
"Students from historically underrepresented schools increased from 5.56% (2020-21) to 30.73%."
"In the last 10 years, this is the first time all FCPS middle schools had students who were accepted into TJ. "

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-550-students-broadens-access-students-who-have-aptitude-stem
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As I said, people have debunked this many times. Are you dumb or blind? I guess both.
The watered-down GPAs can never distinguish the students that TJ truly needs. The TJ reform intentionally eliminated the TJ entrance exam and teacher's recommendations,  the top 2 measures for one's potential and suitability for TJ.[/quote]

You may disagree on interpretation, but these are FACTS.

MORE kids from low-income middle schools. 
MORE kids from low-income families.

And they were [b]all "qualified"[/b]. 
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That's false!
As a matter of fact, many of them are unqualified and lots of kids way more deserving were denied due to the racist change.
And it doesn't matter they're low income if they're unqualified.[/quote]

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