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I want to point out that it is a racists assumption that an URM will be overwhelmed and cannot survive at TJ.  If that is true, what is the answer? Let them whither on the vine and not reach their potential?  How do URMs ever get ahead then?  How do we ever level the playing field and keep TJ?  It is an argument in favor of getting rid  of TJ and sending the money to the schools where kids have lower resources.  Why should a bunch of relatively high income kids get all the benefits?  Find a way to make it accessible to all without extensive prep and courses that sell the answers or get rid of it.
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I don't believe that URM kids will be overwhelmed and incapable of surviving at TJ.  I do believe that URM kids who get admitted to TJ only due to the current anti-meritocratic system will likely be overwhelmed at TJ, along with the white and Asian kids who likewise wouldn't have been selected in the old system but slipped in now due to every single somewhat above average kid looking the same on paper.

If FCPS were serious about making sure that URMs and lower income kids reach their potential, they should have performed an audit of Black TJ applicants over the last 10 years to see why the black kids with high grades and Geometry in 8th were getting rejected.  Then, they should have addressed those specific factors rather than gutting the entire process.  Along with this, they could fund some extra STEM ECs in the lower SES schools.  They could strengthen Young Scholars and use it to provide mentoring and support to talented URMs.  It makes more sense to lift the URMs than it does to make every excuse in the book as to why they simply can't, and then lower the bar.  [/quote]

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