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To be fair, some of us oppose the changes not because we think the status quo is great, but rather because the changes are ill-conceived and won't accomplish anything.  If FCPS wants more URM and lower income kids in TJ, and if they want to eliminate kids who are there purely due to extensive prepping, they should implement much stronger early programming.  Strengthen the Young Scholars program.  Offer free after school and summer enrichment to kids who otherwise wouldn't receive it.  Expand programs like AVID to elementary school to help URM or low income kids succeed in advanced math or AAP.  [b]This would lead to more underrepresented kids who could succeed at TJ.[/b]
Without this, they're paying lip service to wanting more minorities at TJ, but they're doing nothing to aid them in being qualified for a school like TJ.

They should also keep some degree of testing, but not place so much weight upon it.  They could switch tests every year to make it more difficult for people to prep.  They could even create their own math test each year.  The tests should do two things: detect kids who have deficiencies that make them unlikely to succeed at TJ and detect kids who are so brilliant or advanced that they really need a school like TJ.  Most of the non-brilliant, highly prepped kids wouldn't fall into either of those categories, so their prepped scores wouldn't necessarily help them.

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and best of all, your kid will already be through TJ by the time we know. That would take a decade to implement and have kids work through with those support in place; we're past the point where the status quo would be acceptable for that long [/quote]

So then they should just use holistic methods of previous years with a test, and then apply a racial quota.  My issue with the proposed system is that it will not lead to more URMs or low income kids being admitted.  There are upper middle class kids at every FCPS school.  There are Asian and white kids at every school.  Having a school based quota just means that less qualified Asian and white kids at underrepresented schools will get in rather than more qualified ones at over-represented schools.  It also means that people will just move their families in 7th or 8th grade to game the system.  It will accomplish nothing.

Earlier programming will lead to more URMs and low income kids.  Quotas will lead to more URMs and low income kids.  What FCPS is proposing will not, unless they're going to boost URM applicants up behind the scenes.  [/quote]

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