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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our URM student from Longfellow with Geometry and multiple years of stem contest participation did not receive an offer.  It is asinine to suggest we could have increased our TJ chances had we moved back to our previous Whitman Middle neighborhood. Current system is broken, and doesn't work for merit URM students.  [/quote]

There is a rising sophomore at woodson that won the 3M science competition by developing a treatment for skin cancer.  He's black.  I don't know if he even applied to TJ but there is nothing about the current process that would have ensured that he gets in.[/quote]

He probably felt unwelcome. Many of the students assume any URM only got in because of fictional quotas.[/quote]

So he felt more welcome at woodson?  Come on now! 
There were no quotas under the old system.  And there is definitely a quota now.  1.5% from every school.[/quote]

The culture at TJ is very hostile any URMs. Even people here still constantly go on about fictional quotas or affirmative action that doesn't exist in  a race blind process. I can understand why he'd feel more welcome at his base school.[/quote]

There is absolutely a quota.  It is a school based quota.  And while schools may be a proxy for race in a school system with high segregation, they are not actually selecting for race.  But they aren't selecting for merit either.[/quote]

Yes, they take the top 1.5% from each school, but the process is race blind. That's a matter of law. [/quote]

Just because it's race blind doesn't mean there isn't a racially driven motive.
See Voter ID laws
See Literacy Tests
See Poll Taxes
See Grandfather Laws

In the case of the TJ admissions process, the 1.5% is an attempt to use the inherent racial segregation at our schools to achieve racial goals.
I am not horribly offended by the process but it was in fact driven by racial concerns.  
I mean it's a public school and subject to the democratic process.  Anyone that doesn't like it is free to run for the school board.
It appears that the supreme court is satisfied to allow this sort of thing for now, but as was the case with affirmative action, as things get more and more extreme in an effort to achieve particular racial goals, it may cross the line.
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I think the approach of ensuring 1.5% per school as driven by socioeconomic diversity concerns moreso than by racial ones, but obviously race and SES are correlated, and the former is the more readily observable one.

But if you look at the data there has been a much bigger relative change in the number of FARMS students (from 41 -> 201 students, or nearly 5x) than in URMs (from 87 -> 196, or about 2.25x) from 2020-21 to 2022-23 (don't know when the most recent school year data will get posted).

Source: https://schoolprofiles.fcps.edu/schlprfl/f?p=108:13:::::P0_CURRENT_SCHOOL_ID,P0_EDSL:300,0[/quote]

I love what BBCode does to URLs.[/quote]

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