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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Simple. Have an entrance exam open to any resident of DC who wishes to attend. Top 145 test takers get in, as measured by score. Wait list is ranked by exam score. [/quote] That's how my high school, Boston Latin, admitted 7th graders for more than 200 years, until the late 1980s, when an interview was added, presumably to increase minority enrollment. 20 years ago, the school was sued by a white family. The case settled in mediation with a concession to the plaintiffs, interview nixed. But whites did not really win. Asians did. The percentage of Asian students at BL has tripled in this century, while the white percentage remains roughly where it was when the suit was filed.[/quote] Perhaps the plaintiffs just wanted merit based entrance exams? Perhaps some of us actually believe race should not be a factor in...pretty much anything, any more than hair color should? [/quote]
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