Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, one of the top state schools in the U.S., has seen its ranking plummet since implementing a new DEI ‘racial equity’ admissions policy in 2020. Laurel Duggan, UnHerd‘s U.S. correspondent, has the story.
In the days after George Floyd’s death, [school] leaders began assessing the underrepresentation of black and Hispanic students at the magnet school, and discussed how to move “towards greater equity, to be clearly distinguished from equality”. Soon after, the school updated its highly competitive admissions process, replacing standardised tests with a holistic evaluation that rewarded students on the basis of having attended underrepresented middle schools and qualifying for free lunch — considerations that critics have called racial proxies.
School leaders had repeatedly complained that the student population, which was majority Asian-American, did not match the racial demographics of the surrounding area. After the implementation of new admissions metrics, the admission of Asian students declined from 73% to 54%. Critics, including parents of Asian students, have pointed to this statistic as evidence of discrimination.
In addition to changing demographics, TJ’s academic output declined drastically. The school tumbled down the national rankings of top public high schools, falling from the #1 to the #14 slot in just four years.
TJ previously boasted 157 semifinalists for the prestigious 2020 National Merit Scholarship, a number that stayed fairly consistent until this year. But the number fell by nearly half for the current senior class, students who were admitted in 2021 under the newly implemented race-conscious admissions rules. Only 81 TJ students were semifinalists for the 2025 award.
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I fully subscribe to the notion that if you make allowances for anything but merit then standards will slide… But… I would like to understand what the pro-DEI crew would say about this. I assume they’ve got a perspective… Whether I believe it or not.
Combination of deluded utopianist useful idiots, grievance grifters and evil manipulators who will say “because racism” – some of them believe it, others just pretend.
Equity = equality of outcome. If all fail then that’s equity.
It is absurd to claim or at least to imply that every racial group has the same intelligence. You can’t exert some policy and make it so. I think they want to say that the underperformance of some groups is due to socio-economic factors and this of course is a factor but the whole picture goes way beyond that.
It is not simply a matter of degree of intelligence, it is how it is or can be used and that involves a number of factors the most pertinent being culture.
Pakistanis and Indians are racially the same but culturally different. It is that difference which explains the disparity in academic, social and economic progress between the two populations.
Britain started the Industrial Revolution – why not France, Germany? Same racial stock, plenty of intelligent people in the three Countries. It was cultural.
Although it is worth considering North Korea and South Korea in terms of IQ disparity.
DIE (die-whitey and go-away Asians) is part of the ideology of the New Dark Age. One of its more nonsensical components is that education administrators imagine they possess a magisterial wisdom which allows to correct “social errors” which produce differential educational outcomes. Essentially, they believe in magic, and they behave like witches.
I always think it’s a lot more about how it makes them feel than any real world outcomes
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https://x.com/myhiddenvalue/status/1838699486958571987
Dr Sherri Tenpenny discussing the “Pact for the Future” document which was recently given silent approval by 193 nations at the United Nations. The aim is to digitize everything on the planet.
A short video. Two minutes. Harrowing stuff.
Not much use if you don’t have enough electricity
There are all sorts of complexities that aren’t considered by narrow-minded people. For example the reason that Indians are so clever with language is due to the depth and complexity of Sanskrit and also its close relationship to English. Do you think these policy makers bother ith things like philology. The same goes for the relationship between Persian and English which is very profound. They know nothing.
In our time there is a simple test to see if someone is useful. If they have a love of poetry and song and beauty in general then they are useful. If not then they are part of the enemy and problem. In essence already dead. Just look and ask if they can invoke a mood and a magic and a calmness. If you can’t do it yourself then you are already destroyed and utterly useless.
Overseas student applications have dropped dramatically in this country. You can understand why. You sold your higher learning to the highest bidder and now everyone avoids it because you turned it into a cheap whore.
DIE in name; DIE in nature.
Hiding in plain sight, it be their [Karma].
Shouldn’t the student population match brain power, not who has the best tan?