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I'd improve funding for Young Scholars and update the selection criteria to identify kids who need the help.  Kids who are FARMS, are lower middle class but not FARMS, have parents who do not have college degrees, have only one parent figure in their lives, or are part of a historically repressed group (people of Native American or Native Central/South American ancestry and people of African American ancestry - not including white Hispanics or Black Immigrants) would be the kids I would target for extra programming.  I'd probably include refugees in the repressed people group.  Free after school tutoring, summer programs, and ECs would be a part of the program.

The only true solution, though, is to lift people out of poverty.  Our country lacks the will to do so, and instead would rather slap a band-aid on this gaping wound.  Letting a handful more black kids into elite magnet programs gives people the warm fuzzies, but it doesn't do anything to address the deep problems causing the achievement gap.[/quote]

We can improve funding and programs all we want, but the schools that these kids attend will continue to be the schools that everyone else is desperate to avoid. And as history has shown in these kinds of schools, like the case of DCPS, no amount of funding seems to be enough to lift those kids out of their poverty when they continue to be isolated into highly concentrated, very low-performing schools.[/quote]

Financial support can help them but cannot change their life if they don’t have the self motivation and execution. Sending them to TJ also cannot change their life. Staying at the bottom of TJ is nothing good for them. [/quote]

So glad you know what’s best for them.  Yes, don’t waste a precious spot at TJ on them since you in all of your almighty knowledge say they don’t have the “self motivation and execution”.  How would you know this for each individual child???  Hmmm.  A stereotype.  Kind of like the Asian parenting stereotypes. Interesting . . .

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PP who suggested improving Young Scholars and trying to lift people out of poverty, here.  I honestly don't think a precious spot at TJ should be wasted on a kid who has not demonstrated any particular self motivation or execution.  Admitting kids to TJ who do not have the academic capacity for TJ is just setting them up for failure.  But that's precisely why I want to improve Young Scholars, improve the lower SES middle schools, and try to lift people out of poverty.  At least if the funding and programming is there for the lower SES kids, they have a much more fair chance to develop the academic skills they need and demonstrate their self motivation.  Whether or not any individual kids rise to the occasion is up to them, but at least we're giving them a chance.  [/quote]

They already do this.  TJ current students already do tutoring and support specifically focused on schools/areas that are less represented

Here is what I would do

Eliminate AAP from the top 1/3 of schools.  Those kids have a high enough cohort at their base to be challenged.
Have AAP be an elite program for kids in the bottom 2/3 of schools.  Less than 5% of kids total ideally more like 1%

TJ Admissions would be anyone in the AAP program and then kids who have the best scores after that.
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