Washington Post Article On Freshmen Admitted Under New Admissions Process

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Anonymous wrote:Sad it's not the best anymore, we'll see what the sols show in a year

It's still "the best". Even though some entitled kids didn't get in.

Remains to be seen. And calling kids “entitled” is Maoist BS so don’t be surprised when people get tired of your class warfare.

Since when is rigous studying and supporting parents sacrificing for extra education entitled? Those kids earned it. Entitled is getting 50% CREDIT as per the new rules for being the right minority and poverty level. No matter how hard you study and try you can't change your race, maybe in the future we have some gene splicing but not now.

Not so good with math, eh?

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The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad it's not the best anymore, we'll see what the sols show in a year

It's still "the best". Even though some entitled kids didn't get in.

#wokie

#whitesavior

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Logic not your strength, I see.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Or move outside of Fairfax county

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Logic not your strength, I see.

It is! That's what I studied after graduating from TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Agree! So much drama. Good kids will flourish at their home schools, especially the kids that the poster is referring to as they have many resources. TJ is not making or breaking their lives.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Agree! So much drama. Good kids will flourish at their home schools, especially the kids that the poster is referring to as they have many resources. TJ is not making or breaking their lives.

These kids (including mine) will be fine.

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They’ll be fine but it’s really unfair for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

They should, but of course they won't. It would undercut the inspiring, pre-ordained narrative of how FCPS found a way for more URMs and FARMS kids to have a life-changing experience at TJ if it turns out the increasing number of extremely well qualified, but turned away, kids who ended up at their base schools are doing great (or even outperforming TJ kids). We can already see some cracks in the facade. The Post won't want to add more.

Eventually it will be clear that the main purpose of TJ has become to provide an alternative for some bright, if not necessarily exceptional, kids to escape the county's lowest-performing high schools. That won't necessarily do much for TJ's reputation, but it will underscore just how bad some other FCPS schools have become.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad it's not the best anymore, we'll see what the sols show in a year

PSATs their sophomore a d especially junior years will be the true test.

TJ always, always, always dominated national merit.

If TJ drops in the national merit selction for the class of 2025, the effectiveness of this lowering of standards will be obvious.

And if the high schools from the the traditional TJ feeder muddle schools see a large gain in NM, then it will only solidify that the school board made a huge mistake.

If NM of the class of 2025 has a similar spread to prior years, then all this angst and hurtful racism by the school board will have been for naught.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to these kids. There are always good kids who don't make it. Question was never about minorities in the school. It was about purging one minority for the other to assuage guilt for the majority while also helping the majority. There were better ways of doing it without cruelly targeting just one group, with intent. which is why the court said the new process was not legal.

Good is not the best. It's a magnet school not a diversity inclusive job

Under the SB’s new “scoring rubric” (which they kept confidential/ hidden from parents),

-1/4 of TJ admissions is based on actual math talent. 1/4 is based on GPA and 50% of the application is based on non academic criteria.

GPA doesn't count towards math talent?

Not really. An A in M7H earns a higher score in the TJ evaluations than an A- in Algebra II, since there is no extra weighting based on the difficulty of the class.

Algebra I in 8th is too low of a cut off.

The cut off should be geometry in 8th, not algebra I.

TJ should serve the kids whose needs cannot be met elsewhere, particularly in math and science.

A kid who takes algebra I in 8th is just on the average track. Most of the smart kids take algebra in 7th, and the average to slightly above average take it in 8th.

Do any kids applying to TJ get less than an A in any math class? I assumed they all got As in math/science.

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Anonymous wrote:Sad it's not the best anymore, we'll see what the sols show in a year

PSATs their sophomore a d especially junior years will be the true test.

TJ always, always, always dominated national merit.

If TJ drops in the national merit selction for the class of 2025, the effectiveness of this lowering of standards will be obvious.

And if the high schools from the the traditional TJ feeder muddle schools see a large gain in NM, then it will only solidify that the school board made a huge mistake.

If NM of the class of 2025 has a similar spread to prior years, then all this angst and hurtful racism by the school board will have been for naught.

This was already illustrated with 9th grade AMC 10 scores. In the past, TJ had like 20 9th grade AIME qualifiers, while the remaining schools had 1 or 2. Last year, TJ had like 8, and the remaining FCPS schools had like 12+, including 2 9th grade JMO qualifiers. They're not admitting the elite math talents to TJ any longer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Washington Post should profile some of the amazing kids who were rejected.

Perhaps, but since they're so amazing, they'll be fine at their home schools too!

Logic not your strength, I see.

It is! That's what I studied after graduating from TJ.

TJ Failure to Launch……