Merit matters: Parents accuse top high school of a ‘purge’ after slashing number of Asian American students by 20% because ‘they are the wrong minority

UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/06/2021 | Rachel Sharp

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Parents have accused America's top high school of a 'purge' after slashing its intake of Asian American students by 20 percent because 'they are the wrong minority.'

Anti-Critical Race Theory campaigner Asra Nomani, whose child graduated from the school this year, claims Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ) in Virginia is making race a factor in the admissions criteria and discriminating against Asian children.

She said TJ, which ranked the number one school nationwide in the US News Best High Schools report in April and as a public school has no tuition fees, has 'systematically set out to reduce' the number of Asian students joining.

Admissions data shows the class of 2025 has become increasingly diverse with black students making up 7 percent of the year group, up from just 1 percent for the class of 2021.

The proportion of Hispanic students increased from 3 percent to 11 percent while white students climbed from 18 percent to 22 percent.

Asian students continue to make up the majority at 54 percent of the class.

However, this marks a major decrease from 73 percent of the class of 2021 - a decline Nomani said is down to 'new racist standards' in the admissions process.

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Of course they know who they are related to, but the Maryland school districts don’t know, don’t care.

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“I don’t care if every seat is taken by an Asian if they’ve earned the right to be there.” - California Governor Ronald Reagan in response to concern that too many Asians were in the California University system.