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The poison of DEI and a woke school board resulted in ditching the merit based admission policies. Too many Asian Americans and not enough minorities and inequitable representation of certain zip codes. Everything these lefties/Marxists get their hands on goes to ruin.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...e-asian-americans-co

Sorry, here's the correct link

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...sian-americans-court


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My daughter-in-law went to that school; she didn't live close by, had to commute. She knew Asian families that moved to be close by so their kids could go there (we did similar with our kids).


Here's an article that mentions TJ, and also a reversal of NYC's plan to abandon merit:

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Across the country, similar debates have raged over the value of racially diverse schools and classrooms against the advantages of rewarding top students with access to elite schools and advanced courses.

In San Francisco, admissions into the elite Lowell High School were converted from merit-based into a lottery system. As in New York, though, the change was reversed — in this case, after several school board members were recalled, in part over this issue.

In Northern Virginia, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology also shifted from an admissions test to a “holistic review” that considers several factors, a move that is being challenged in court and has faced resistance from the Republican governor and his administration.


Lowell in SF used to be the "J and J school"-Japanese and Jews.


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The Supreme Court decision in the two race-based admissions cases that were argued last year is still forthcoming. The left is already gnashing their teeth about what they predict it will mean for this part of their agenda.

A few years to work through the courts isn't a big deal to me, because I'm old. It means a lot for the kids who were most competitive for Thomas Jefferson High but didn't get in (because, you know, DEI... but none of that "I" for kids who are smart and apply themselves.)

I have a radical idea: When there's a final court determination that a public board, any board, has violated the Constitution: Strip every member of the board that voted in favor of the policy of their office.
 
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And yet the Asians will still mostly vote democrat because of the lies the media has fed them.

Asians are only minorities when it comes to benefitting blacks and Hispanics. Otherwise, Asians are considered whiter than white.


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..Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology also shifted from an admissions test to a “holistic review” that considers several factors...


You don't really want to know what those factors are, you won't be enlightened or happy. You know, stuff like lived experiences and favored minority. Cobblestones in the road to hell.




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The Supreme Court decision in the two race-based admissions cases that were argued last year is still forthcoming. The left is already gnashing their teeth about what they predict it will mean for this part of their agenda.


When they lose these cases it will be another reason to wave the bloody shirt to fire up their supporters to renew the demand that the SCOTUS be packed.


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