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Well it depends what kind of a school they want I suppose.
The new standards basically tell the prospective students: maintain a 3.5 GPA and you have a chance to go to this good school.
The previous standards basically said: if you don’t come from a high earning two parent home that can afford unlimited time and money on your education, then you don’t have much of a chance to get in here.
Some people would clearly prefer the second one but it’s up to the school to decide.
For a school like that, 3.5 is not particularly spectacular. We have a similar high school in Austin called LASA (public magnet school), the average and mean gpa hovers at 4.0. Now that's graduating seniors. For admissions, they have a rubric and WRT to classes and grades, the score the highest points on the rubric for that category it states:
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All A’s in mostly Pre-AP or Magnet core curriculum courses.
Now that means you can make up for a weaker GPA (or high GPA but not as challenging classes) by doing better in some of the other areas (like the good ole admissions test).
As for finances, our top performing high schools are filled with kids, esp from certain cultures, that come from solidly middle to professional class families. AAMOF, the public high school in the area that has the highest per capita income is NOT the best performing school in the area.
The white population increased from 17% to 22%. Hispanic from 3%-12%. Blacks from 1%-7%. A GPA average of 3.95 out of 4.00 (which is in line with previous years). Asians decreased to 54%. As you can see Whites we’re clearly punished by increasing 5% of the population.
The irony of this argument is that if it was all about the students like y’all making it seem then the smartest students don’t need to go to the very
Best school. Fairfax county is known for 5/5 star schools being the norm, they just had 5/5 star schools feeding into a test only elite 6/5 star school.
So now all these super smart kids gets to go to the regular suburban schools that still do extremely well, and maybe they actually have a better chance of being Valedictorian.
Not to be outdone by its leftist neighbor to the west (Loudon County), the Fairfax School Board is considering dumbing down the requirements for admission to the prestigious and competitive (public) TJ School, whereby admissions tests will no longer be required. Apparently, too many of the students scoring the highest are white and Asian, and leftists don’t like that. Better to lower the school to achieve “diversity,” even though it makes the school less advanced.
And read carefully. Of the 500 slots, 100 of them will be given out to those who are the best academically, regardless of skin color. The remaining 80% will be a lottery.
The best school in the county, previously RACE-BLIND with admissions going to the best and brightest.....dumbed down by the leftists.
Oh and here is the punch-line to the joke....they want to change the standards to let in more minorities that previously didn't qualify so that they can feel meritorious. What the fudge?
Sounds like they figured out only rich kids who could pay for test prep were getting in.
So what is your problem with them fixing that problem ?
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And that’s the problem! Why SHOULDN’T it go to the top 500 performers? .
I would be fine with that, but it wasnt previously and that was part of the problem.
Also, who gets to define that number ?
Is it 500 best GPA's overall or 500 best based on subjects taken. And if so, do we differentiate based on if those classes were even offered at those schools ?
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And why assume that the whites and Asians are all from wealthy families? Plenty of bright white students from poor backgrounds too, and now they’ll have to give up their seats to someone less academically accomplished.
IDK, ask yourself
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Absolutely! The students getting a 3.5 in a marginal, poor-performing school are now eligible for the lottery, competing with the best and brightest. .
I mean, your posts contradict themselves. if we believe your question. But we dont, we know you just dont like black people.
I mean, your posts contradict themselves. if we believe your question. But we dont, we know you just dont like black people.
And just like a liberal.....out with the racist accusation. Only in liberal world is a person who wants a policy blind to race considered a racist, and a person who wants policy changes because they disapprove of the racial makeup considered a non-racist.
Basically, they are raising the GPA requirement and dropping the standardized test. Big deal.
Northern VA schools are better than most and TJ’s requirements aren’t even high. A 3.5 is just decent and a 3.0 is regular.
They are making changes specifically because they disapprove of so many Asians and whiteys coming out on top, and replacing it with a lottery so blacks and Latinos whose lower scores would have eliminated them can get in instead. It’s a racially-driven change.
And raising the GPA while dropping the test means that kids from schools where it is easier to get a 3.5, but their lacking compared to others shows via a standardized test, can get in. (That’s why they call them standardized tests....is to even things up when GPAs across schools aren’t comparable.)
By eliminating the test, they can “hide” the fact that students aren’t as knowledgeable or academically capable as others, and thus move Asians and whites out and more blacks and Latinos in. They are lowering the caliber of the school for reasons of race, and it comes at the cost of the Asians and whites who otherwise would have been accepted.
It’s a shonde.
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