The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun

Re:The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson ... by dwater on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:24PM (#28235821)

When I took the TJ test ~25 years ago it was much like every other standardized test I took in school like the Iowa tests and the SAT, which are generally regarded in the field of education not as measures of mental capacity or scholastic aptitude, but of test prep, whether direct or indirect. Or put another way, they are known to have cultural bias.

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Re:The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson ... by farmerstan on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:40PM (#28236026)

Are you saying that the tests were purposefully biased in favor of Asians? Were they written in China so that Asians would have a benefit that lead to 73% demographics at TJ?

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Re:The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson ... by UncleMeat on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:47PM (#28236142)

Purposefully, no. In the same way that Leetcode style interviews are not purposefully biased in favor of young people.

But there shouldn't be an axiom that standardized testing is the best way to gauge merit and (more controversially) I believe that there shouldn't be an axiom that merit is the most effective way to choose what students have access to accelerated schooling.

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