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The school board has decided that broader access is more important than identifying a class of the absolute strongest/most gifted students (even assuming that would be possible).  If they can do it in a legal (non-racially discriminatory way), will you accept that decision?  If they win the court case, will you let it go?  If they make whatever change the court requires to make it non-racially discriminatory will you accept that?  For example, if all they did was require seats be set aside for each middle school and those seats be filled without considering the race or gender of the students, would you be OK with that?    [/quote]

No, because it's contrary to the mission of VA Governor's Schools.  Their mission is to identify the strongest/most gifted students whose needs can't be met at their local school.  FCPS can open its own magnet STEM school, but it can't rewrite the mission of a Governor's School.  [/quote]

+1. Diversity is a fine goal to strive for and we can debate the best way to do so, but Governor's Schools have a clear charter which the current TJ admissions policy is at odds with.

I'm not sure how they got away with any of this to begin with, but it probably won't be long befe the state stops permitting FCPS to be the sole administrator of TJ.[/quote]

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