Posted on 03/13/2022 8:05:00 PM PDT by grundle
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge has again ruled against a northern Virginia school system that he found guilty of discriminating against Asian American students when it overhauled its admissions policies at a highly selective high school.
For decades, Black and Hispanic students have been woefully underrepresented in the student body. In the wake of criticism over a lack of diversity, the school board scrapped a standardized test that had been at the heart of the admissions process.
A parents' group sued in federal court, arguing that Asian Americans, who constituted more than 70% of the student body at TJ, were unfairly targeted in the new policy.
The school's current freshman class, which was admitted under the new policy, saw a significantly different racial makeup. Black students increased from 1% to 7%; Hispanic representation increased from 3% to 11%. Asian American representation, meanwhile, decreased from 73% to 54%.
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They want to control what we see, say, hear and think. They think they can force experimental poisons into our bodies. They claim the “right” to take our jobs and bank accounts if we do not comply. Acts of war, all. And they dare to call us extremists. It’s past time the Dems get the lesson they got in 1865 all over again. For the same reasons.
As a white guy all I have to say is ZFG in this case.
Sadly, the United States of America is home to systemic/institutional racism, and its name is “affirmative action.”
The school system seems to want to discriminate against people because discrimination is bad. Or something.
I guess Whites were left out completely.
The smart, alert Asian parents should take their kids to private schools, if there is any way that they can.
As everything sifts out, we’ll see who does better in the end.
In most states, the American public school systems have been making themselves useless for decades, and especially in the past few years.
Lots of doom and gloom in a thread that is about a judge actually throwing out this kind of racist policy, and ordering what the Constitution requires.
Should have left the Asians alone and instead zeroed out the whites and replaced them with blacks/Hispanics. Then they would have been fine from a discrimination standpoint.
If they want to get into that school then the blacks and the Latinos just need to study like the Asians.
You mean as a moron.
I went to high school in Fairfax County. Most of the schools were predominantly white then with a few blacks and Asians. The schools were mostly military brats, State Dept. brats and a smattering of other government agency bureaucrats’ kids.
TC Williams High School (where Gerald Ford’s kids went until he was named Veep, also featured in the movie “Remember the Titans”) had a larger black population than most Fairfax County school did.
The thing is, none of us cared. Other than the normal high school disagreements, people got along and didn’t fuss about race. To my knowledge, there wasn’t any gang activity in that area back then and physical fights happened, but were a rarity.
What does ‘under represented’ even mean?
I find it so maddening government leaders try to fix the symptoms rather than address the cause.....and then pat themselves on the back for caring so much. The last thing they are are caring people.
They can’t sleep at night unless they’re forcing people to think just. Like. Them.
Admission should be based on grades and test scores with no mention of race. Perhaps the district should cut out the wokeness and concentrate on academics helping Hispanic and Black students to achieve academically. It does great disservice to Black and Hispanic students to blame poor academic performance on their race. In essence the school district has given up on these students and just blames racism rather than the failure of their teaching.
Then when those black and Hispanics students who were otherwise not qualified attend the elite school, they will either be crushed by the coursework or have to be handheld and tutored all the way through. The third alternative is to dump everything which made the school special and make it the same as every other school in the district.
That is exactly how the several "elite" high schools in NYC operated for many years. They accepted students on the basis of some very stiff entrance exams. So, turns out that most of the kids passing these tests with high enough scores were Asian. DumblASSio, newly exited ex-mayor of NYC, couldn't have THAT--he needed his beloved black thugs to have an equal chance of screwing up these precious few schools where real learning, at a very high level, actually goes on. He tried and tried to get rid of the entrance exam policy, but was not able to. Throw open the doors of these precious jewels of schools and let the ghetto miscreants have at. That's what that idiot wanted. Those schools require reading levels at the very rare 4 level. The kids he wanted admitted would be lucky to lay claim to a reading level of 1 or 2. Seriously. So they would be able, if they bothered to attend classes, to understand about every third word. Frustrated, they would act out in class so that NO ONE could learn, effectively ending the vast chasm between their learning capacity and that of the kids who legitimately passed the entrance exams and really want to learn. Adams, the new mayor, supposedly wants more gifted and talented programs created so that kids from "all" neighborhoods" can have a chance to participate. We'll see how that goes.
“In essence the school district has given up on these students and just blames racism rather than the failure of their teaching.”
Perhaps more than just calling out the district for their failure at preparing these students for educational challenges, it would also be appropriate to recognize the significant role of parents in that endeavor. Quite often, this “parenting” is done by either a single parent or even a grandparent who only knows to play the “race card” for failing to properly guide their children. All of this is unacceptable and I’d give the larger portion of blame over to parents rather than just the school. Probably 60/40 on the ratio, IMO.
One other thing not related to your comment but the way the article is written with the appearance of being a news article but having plenty of editorial color. The first one I noticed was the use of “woefully” in the opening of the piece.
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