A Fairfax County school board member admitted in a text message to a fellow board member that the district’s new equity-focused admissions policy for an advanced high school in Virginia has undertones of anti-Asian discrimination.
School board member Abrar Omeish texted board member Stella Pekarsky: “I mean there has been an anti asian feel underlying some of this, hate to say it lol,” according to correspondence obtained by non-profit Parents Defending Education...
https://news.yahoo.com/fairfax-county-school-board-member-211316519.html
A memoire of my experience attending a school district that put its numbers first and students second in terms of high school enrollment policies. My big question is at the end of my rant.
I grew up in the Seattle Public School District, from 1993 (district based preschool, K-5 beginning 1996) to 2009, where it was norm to attend your neighborhood K-5 School, options to attend neighborhood/zoned middle school or K-8 school, but for high school, there weren't enough high schools throughout the city for students to attend, and not all neighborhoods or clusters of zip codes had a high school to call their own, so many students would be assigned to the nearest high school: A) based on their enrollment zone for K-5 school; B) based on nearest high school with a traditional, comprehensive curriculum (not alternative/option/vocational/magnet program); C) based on diversity population percentages of that individual student's ethnicity (not just race alone) in comparison to how many more students that high school needs of that ethnicity; D) based on race of Asian, Pacific Islander, White, Black, Latino or Middle Eastern and what the majority race of a high school currently is, thus they would be enrolled there; E) very few high schools in SPS are typical FEEDER/RECIEVING-ONLY high schools, to be fed students from nearby middle schools, which would be fed by nearby elementary schools.
Basically, you could live in majority-one-race zip code or enrollment zone, your neighborhood high school is already the majority of your ethnicity/race, and bc that school has met the status quo in how many % students are what ethnicities, you might be considered "one too many", thus you're enrolled/assigned to attend a high school OUTSIDE of Your Enrollment Zone, by anywhere from 1 high school away to 8 high schools away from your enrollment zone and home address. Seattle's high schools run from South to North, and from the farthest south SPS zipcode, some students would/could be assigned to attend a high school that EIGHT ZONES AWAY, with a 50% chance of being provided district-run yellow school bus route, or be given a Metro bus pass (known as the Orca Card).
I attended the farthest North high school in the SPS. It was 3 zones away from my enrollment zone. That was for 9th and 10th grades. Then I attended the high school that was designated for my enrollment zone, one neighborhood away but in my Assigned Zone. There were not enough high schools for a growing city, for many ne
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