TJHSST Admissions Revised Proposal to be sent on 10/6

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Anonymous wrote:If TJ will be a lottery based environment, how do we justify the allocation of funding it gets over and above other schools? They should just turn it back into a normal school and be done with it

It doesn't get any more funding from FCPS than any other school.

TJ gets a lot of private donations and sponsorships. Mainly because companies like associating with TJ and TJ has students to fill courses/clubs that will make good use of those donations, e.g. advanced computer equipment, robotics, chemistry/microbiology lab equipment, etc. That will slow when it turns into Chantilly Academy East. They'll still continue to get donations because of their history and because the academies sometimes get donations too, but not sure if it will be like on the scale as they did before.

TJ most certainly has a concerted effort to collect above and beyond what they recieve in public funds: http://www.tjptsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/guide-to-giving-2015-2016.pdf

The TJ Partnership Fund collects between $1.8-$2.2 million annually. http://www.tjpartnershipfund.org/uploaded/TJPF_2019_Annual_Report.pdf

They also get an extra $2million or so from the state of VA for being a Govenors school.

Another less known area that they gather resources is limiting the size of the school. The school could easily hold 2,000 students, but they are never above around 1,700 or so. They ensure this by not admitting the full 500 students each year that the school board has authorized. Keeping the student population down allows them to spend the resources in a smaller pool of kids.

The bold is simply not true. The FCPS program budget and TJ cost over 3m more from local property tax dollars than runnng the comp academics etc at any other school. Now the speaker is saying extra help and tutoring supports for any student with below a B average.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if we said we should get rid of major league baseball so that the minor league gets more attention/funding. Or get rid of the Olympics so that local amateur sports can flourish more. Get rid of research universities so that community colleges can get more focus.

This is a poor analogy. Education in the United States is not on the same level as sports. Can we just stop comparing the two please?

Ridiculous Tiger parents comparing their pimply 14-year-old kids to professional athletes? Please come up with better analogies.

Then do a lottery for high school sports teams. My kid who has never played soccer deserves to be on the HS varsity team.

Fine, most kids playing varsity sports have no future playing professional sports. We all know this.

Fantastic! Let’s see Brabrand propose that next.

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Anonymous wrote:Imagine if we said we should get rid of major league baseball so that the minor league gets more attention/funding. Or get rid of the Olympics so that local amateur sports can flourish more. Get rid of research universities so that community colleges can get more focus.

This is a poor analogy. Education in the United States is not on the same level as sports. Can we just stop comparing the two please?

Ridiculous Tiger parents comparing their pimply 14-year-old kids to professional athletes? Please come up with better analogies.

Then do a lottery for high school sports teams. My kid who has never played soccer deserves to be on the HS varsity team.

Fine, most kids playing varsity sports have no future playing professional sports. We all know this.

But the kid may be risking his/her life going out into a varsity game if not up to par.

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Does Keys Gamarra not realize that when she presses FCPS staff on how they will be “accountable“ for “meeting targets,” she is inviting them to admit there are quotas? They are evading her question because she is digging a legal hole for FCPS.

She is such an idiot. And why does Anderson let her ask questions for 10 minutes running? Are there no other School Board members, or did we just decide these two women get to run everything.

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It’s obvious they want quotas.

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KKG is a fool.

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Wow these people are openly discussing how they should frame, engineer and define "holistic approach" to "merit" so they can have their target quotas. Are there no educators or lawyers among them?

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Anonymous wrote:Does Keys Gamarra not realize that when she presses FCPS staff on how they will be “accountable“ for “meeting targets,” she is inviting them to admit there are quotas? They are evading her question because she is digging a legal hole for FCPS.

She is such an idiot. And why does Anderson let her ask questions for 10 minutes running? Are there no other School Board members, or did we just decide these two women get to run everything.

KKG is a lawyer. The reality is we might have an expanded Supreme Court and who know what with the Senate so they are certainly free to talk quota.
Brabrand and the lot of used ethical, bias in the test. Other than max test prep where's the bias?

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Where is Tholen?

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Who elected Maren?

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Anonymous wrote:Does Keys Gamarra not realize that when she presses FCPS staff on how they will be “accountable“ for “meeting targets,” she is inviting them to admit there are quotas? They are evading her question because she is digging a legal hole for FCPS.

She is such an idiot. And why does Anderson let her ask questions for 10 minutes running? Are there no other School Board members, or did we just decide these two women get to run everything.

KKG is a lawyer. The reality is we might have an expanded Supreme Court and who know what with the Senate so they are certainly free to talk quota.
Brabrand and the lot of used ethical, bias in the test. Other than max test prep where's the bias?

No one with a functioning brain wants to go down the path of suggesting explicit racial quotas that are currently invalid based on speculation that a Democratic administration would pack a future Supreme Court with quota-friendly justices.

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Anonymous wrote:Who elected Maren?

Hunter Mill - mostly Reston and Vienna

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I don’t understand how they will use Experience Factors to determine who gets into the lottery pool. What are minimum Experience Factors? Argh. Such little transparency.

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Anonymous wrote:Who elected Maren?

Hunter Mill - mostly Reston and Vienna

She is really rude!

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Anonymous wrote:Who elected Maren?

Hunter Mill - mostly Reston and Vienna

Elections have consequences.