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[quote=Anonymous]It only requires two points of comparison with TJ to see that this whole exercise is less about improving Black and Hispanic enrollment and more about improving White enrollment:

The first is a public school some 15 or so miles away from TJ - Langley High School, ranked 2nd in Virginia, where exactly 1.96% of the student body is Black. New building, well supplied labs and clubs, and the zoning here is such that adjoining Mclean High School (with a significantly higher black and hispanic enrollment) is overcrowded.  This is the definition of systemic racism (exacerbated by zoning and redlining) leading to disparate educational outcomes. Why is there no outrage about this?  That's because it isn't Asians taking seats away from Whites is it?

Well, Langley High School isn't a Governor's school like TJ, so let's look at one:
Maggie Walker High School is a governor's school. It's also named after the first black woman to own a bank in the US. No Black or Hispanic students from Hanover have gotten into the Maggie Walker Governor’s School since at least 2015, according to data sent from the county school system. Maggie Walker had only nine Hispanic students during the 2019-2020 school year. In Richmond Public Schools, a district made primarily of Black students and an ever-growing Latino population, 30 out of the 39 students selected to attend the governor’s school in the 2019-20 school year were white. This isn't because of a lack of black applicants - 53% of applicants from Richmond public schools to Maggie Walker were black. Why is there no outrage? Well that's because 72% of its enrollment is White.

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