Virginia School Board Members Acknowledged Anti-Asian Bias in Admissions, Texts Showhttps://freebeacon.com/campus/virginia-school-board-members-acknowledged-anti-asian-bias-in-admissions-texts-show/Two Virginia school board members admitted that an "underlying" sense of anti-Asian sentiment influenced admissions practices meant to boost black and Hispanic enrollment at one of the nation's top high schools.
In a text conversation revealed as part of a federal lawsuit, Fairfax County Public School board members Abrar Omeish and Stella Pekarsky questioned the efficacy of the district's "equitable" admissions practices for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Omeish and Pekarsky said that district officials knew the changes would reduce the number of Asian Americans admitted to Thomas Jefferson.
"I mean there has been an anti asian feel underlying some of this, hate to say it lol," Omeish texted Pekarsky in the fall of 2020. "They're discriminated against in this process too."
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Thomas Jefferson roiled parents in October 2020 when the school ditched its entrance exam in favor of an admissions system built on racial quotas. The new policies limited the amount of Asian-American students that each of the district's middle schools could send to the high school. Parents said the policy targeted Asian-American students, as the three schools known for feeding students to Thomas Jefferson have primarily Asian-American populations. ...
This lawsuit could get interesting. It's basically a "disparate impact" argument, which I consider weak, because other causes are ignored. However, emails like this evidence that this disparate impact was intentional and by design.
