Original sentence: " Commissioner Alison Collins stated that, "merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing...those are racist systems" and are the "antithesis of fair".In March 2021, Harmeet Dhillon represented a group of Lowell community members and threatened to sue the Board, calling the end of the merit-based admission system “an unconstitutional and illegal program designed to disenfranchise hardworking students”.The Board unanimously voted in October 2020 to switch Lowell High School's selective merit-based admissions policy to a lottery based system for the 2020–2021 school year due to the district moving to a pass/fail system during the coronavirus pandemic
Edited sentence: " In a country which segregated indigenous children and enslaved Black people, and has developed institutions to uphold white male supremacy, acknowledgment of the exclusionary demographics of Lowell would be met with anger and denial.After a century of documented practices of excluding Black children through its admissions policy, the Board unanimously voted in October 2020 to switch Lowell High School's selective merit-based admissions policy to a lottery based system for the 2020–2021 school year due to the district moving to a pass/fail system during the coronavirus pandemic.Commissioner Alison Collins stated that, "merit, meritocracy and especially meritocracy based on standardized testing...those are racist systems" and are the "antithesis of fair".In March 2021, Harmeet Dhillon represented a group of reactionary Lowell community members and threatened to sue the Board, calling the end of the merit-based admission system “an unconstitutional and illegal program designed to disenfranchise hardworking students”