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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]but what you could do, since demand would almost certainly outstrip the spots, is have a certain cutoff and then among those choose 20 from each ward, instead of saying just choose the top 150 kids citywide. That way you are still getting talented kids but you make some allowances for diversity in income and also in unevenness in quality of elementary schools across the city. Yes, kids in high-SES NW would have a smaller chance, but guess what, they have a good option in their backyard! [/quote] Again, it would not be OK in my book to water down the admission criteria as you are proposing just for diversity. TJ watered down their admission criteria and the result was that about 30% of the recent freshmen needed remedial math! I am also in favor of improved schools in all wards so the two do not have to be mutually exclusive.[/quote]
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