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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Diversity is fine as long as Asians are not collateral damage.[/quote]

No reasonable person would consider 50%+ of all seats collateral damage for a group that makes up less than 20% of the county's population. In fact, as a group they're doing better than everyone else so not sure what the problem is.[/quote]

One problem is that you're lumping all Asians into one demographic pot.  If you were to break down the stats further, you'd almost certainly find that South Asians are extremely over-represented, and East Asians are not especially overrepresented at all.  Another problem is that you're comparing TJ demographics to Fairfax County demographics, when pretty much all 90-ish LCPS seats are going to South Asians.  If you take that into account, the Asians actually from FCPS are not as disproportionate as you think.  Yet another problem is that if you look at the kids with very impressive STEM achievements, they're almost all Asian.  Equally and often more privileged white people are not achieving much of anything of note, and thus should lose out to higher achieving Asian kids.  [/quote]

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