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No more mirror-tocracy in selective high school admissions!!! Join me in letting the FCPS School Board know how many people are watching whether they will take a courageous antiracist anti-bias stand or side with the status quo & prep industry. If not us, who? If not now, WHEN? https://twitter.com/TJAlumniAG/status/1339359915748564998
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice... If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” – William Faulkner
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If you would like to take a closer look at why we support the merit lottery, please see TJAAG's statistical analysis of top schools (as ranked by US News & World Report) that use lottery: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167525828444818&id=106746724522729
And a Robust Case for Merit Lottery that cite @nkwarikoo and other scholars: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167545265109541&id=106746724522729
TJ Alumni Action Group's Admissions Recommendations:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167552918442109&id=106746724522729
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167552918442109&id=106746724522729
Analysis of admissions data at Gwinnett High School of Math, Science, and Technology, based on an interview of their Principal and data from the Georgia Department of Education: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=167541735109894&id=106746724522729
Is there anything more ironic than a STEM school that refuses to admit students based on empirical data and the latest cutting-edge research? It's time to walk the talk! Let TJ be the leader it purports to be! The whole country is watching!
Because this is how TJ is leading right now:
And within FCPS:
The prep industry is ready to game the "holistic review" mirror-tocracy. Will we let them?
School Board members, let's be clear: "holistic review" is a vote for racist, sexist, classist, ableist status quo against recs of NAACP, the Minority Student Achievement Oversight Committee, FCPS Title 1 Parent Advisory Committee, Ethiopian and Eritrean Alliance for Education:
