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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you've described a school that selects URMs.  That's not anti-AAPI bias.

Fwiw, there a number of AAPI students in FCPS of different backgrounds and some are high achieving and others are average.  Don't have all the same concerns.[/quote]

It is biased if the selection is not based on merit.  [/quote]

Who defines what is merit? In NVA we had a selection process to TJ which was supposed to be merit but turns out about half the kids had access to the exam questions from having attended expensive outside prep.[/quote]

Do you have a current student @TJHSST?  Doubt it.[/quote]

Yes, and they got in on actual merit. They did not pay for test access at one of the prep centers for wealthy families.[/quote]

DP
Well, if true and proven re:  the actual test copy, why wasn’t a formal investigation carried out?  If proven fraud, why weren’t charges filed?  that test-prep place is still open and functioning, isn’t it?
If what DCUM claims is true, why hasn’t it been covered in the New Yorker or The Atlantic?
If you have links I’ve missed, please share.[/quote]

What authority says Fairfax is required to address the situation through criminal prosecution rather than by adjusting the admissions process (as they did)?

What makes you think any NYC-based publication has any interest whatsoever in anything that happens in Fairfax County?

And as to the test-prep place, it’s a free country. You can send your children to whatever kind of private school you like. A taxpayer-funded public school like TJ has to retain reasonably broad political support. [/quote]

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