# Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 6, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347 "2020-10-06T15:59:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 255
**Author:** ![damuriajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@damuriajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/damuriajashi)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347/255 "2020-10-14T19:32:44Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Speaking of elite schools, important background is ignored to justify keeping things the same, a lot of the ones looking at lotteries are doing so for recent scandals at colleges and other educational institutions. The intent in this case is clear. They are trying to increase the black and hispanic population. A worthy goal that comes at a discriminatory price. This particular writer is a fairly active anti-asian academic. She and a colleague of hers in the gender/cultural studies department are two of the primary apologists of anti-asian discrimination in affirmative action. > [@GIGObuster](#): > > As for the general view that lotteries should be seen as evil, you should know that Public and private Charter schools have used weighted lotteries for awhile, they also do take diversity into account too. Lotteries are not evil. They are just a stupid way of selecting for academic merit. And when you go from a reasonably good way of selecting for academic merit to a stupid way and the end result is a tradeoff of 4 fewer asian students to achieve an increase of 1 black student 1 hispanic student and 2 white students, it is discriminatory against asians. > [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Both types of racists suck, but their existence doesn’t invalidate any of our arguments. What arguments have you made again? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selective-magnet-school-in-virginia-moving-towards-a-lottery-system/922347)._