New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically, what can he to actually improve TJ that is 100% within his control?

He can shift the focus back to STEM academics and recognizing students' merit-based efforts, rather than DEI and woke stuff.

Be really specific in describing exactly how Bonitatibus focused on “DEI and woke stuff” in matters of educational policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wJYHnOyJM&t=3s

At about 13:30 Bonitatibus speaks on this subject during the debate about the admissions change.
She cosigns the whole diversity and representation rationale the board presents for its racial discrimination.

Oh, Asra. I can’t be the only one who is surprised that you have nothing better to do with your time. You were a person of such significance, and now… still tilting at this situation with absolutely no results after four years. Except maybe, just maybe, you got your nemesis a big raise.

The school is entirely populated with students chosen by the new admissions process, and eight of them - the first class of the new process - just made the top 300 in the Regeneron competition. Compared with seven in the class of 2024, and five in the class of 2023.

A staggering objective measure of the top researchers in America’s high schools and the new process has the arrow trending upward.

Go back to picking on the black kids at Hayfield. More people like you when you do that.

The Regeneron finalists chosen by the new admissions policy consist of….7 students that went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population and a fairly wealthy area of Ashburn).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools. 0 non-Asian students.

DP. And it sounds like these students also didn't go to Curie.

Really? I bet 2 or 3 of them did attend classes at Curie. A high number of South Asian kids in western FCPS and in Loudoun go to Curie.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Realistically, what can he to actually improve TJ that is 100% within his control?

He can shift the focus back to STEM academics and recognizing students' merit-based efforts, rather than DEI and woke stuff.

Be really specific in describing exactly how Bonitatibus focused on “DEI and woke stuff” in matters of educational policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wJYHnOyJM&t=3s

At about 13:30 Bonitatibus speaks on this subject during the debate about the admissions change.
She cosigns the whole diversity and representation rationale the board presents for its racial discrimination.

Oh, Asra. I can’t be the only one who is surprised that you have nothing better to do with your time. You were a person of such significance, and now… still tilting at this situation with absolutely no results after four years. Except maybe, just maybe, you got your nemesis a big raise.

The school is entirely populated with students chosen by the new admissions process, and eight of them - the first class of the new process - just made the top 300 in the Regeneron competition. Compared with seven in the class of 2024, and five in the class of 2023.

A staggering objective measure of the top researchers in America’s high schools and the new process has the arrow trending upward.

Go back to picking on the black kids at Hayfield. More people like you when you do that.

The Regeneron finalists chosen by the new admissions policy consist of….7 students that went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population and a fairly wealthy area of Ashburn).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools. 0 non-Asian students.

So the argument is they are still identifying the truly top students; if fewer well above-average students come from Carson, Cooper, and Longfellow, that’s fine because those kids will be appropriately challenged at Oakton, Langley, and McLean; and it’s in the greater interest of society if some above-average students from poor pyramids are exposed to the brilliant kids and get opportunities they wouldn’t have had at schools like Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, Lewis, and Mount Vernon.

What’s your response?

Mine is that if none of these 8 kids attended TJ, then FCPS may have had 0 Regeneron semifinalists rather than 8. The process already appears to have missed the one who needed to enter as a froshmore. It could easily miss others. One of the arguments I've heard is that TJ is "life changing" for the poor kids, but wouldn't be for the kids attending wealthy schools. My view is that making Regeneron semifinalist, USA(J)MO, MOP, high levels/training camps for any of the USAPhO, USACO, etc are also life changing, even for the wealthy kids. In FCPS, most of the kids in the mix for any of those honors would need a school like TJ to help nurture their talents.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, what can he to actually improve TJ that is 100% within his control?

He can shift the focus back to STEM academics and recognizing students' merit-based efforts, rather than DEI and woke stuff.

Be really specific in describing exactly how Bonitatibus focused on “DEI and woke stuff” in matters of educational policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wJYHnOyJM&t=3s

At about 13:30 Bonitatibus speaks on this subject during the debate about the admissions change.
She cosigns the whole diversity and representation rationale the board presents for its racial discrimination.

Oh, Asra. I can’t be the only one who is surprised that you have nothing better to do with your time. You were a person of such significance, and now… still tilting at this situation with absolutely no results after four years. Except maybe, just maybe, you got your nemesis a big raise.

The school is entirely populated with students chosen by the new admissions process, and eight of them - the first class of the new process - just made the top 300 in the Regeneron competition. Compared with seven in the class of 2024, and five in the class of 2023.

A staggering objective measure of the top researchers in America’s high schools and the new process has the arrow trending upward.

Go back to picking on the black kids at Hayfield. More people like you when you do that.

The Regeneron finalists chosen by the new admissions policy consist of….7 students that went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population and a fairly wealthy area of Ashburn).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools. 0 non-Asian students.

So the argument is they are still identifying the truly top students; if fewer well above-average students come from Carson, Cooper, and Longfellow, that’s fine because those kids will be appropriately challenged at Oakton, Langley, and McLean; and it’s in the greater interest of society if some above-average students from poor pyramids are exposed to the brilliant kids and get opportunities they wouldn’t have had at schools like Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, Lewis, and Mount Vernon.

What’s your response?

Mine is that if none of these 8 kids attended TJ, then FCPS may have had 0 Regeneron semifinalists rather than 8. The process already appears to have missed the one who needed to enter as a froshmore. It could easily miss others. One of the arguments I've heard is that TJ is "life changing" for the poor kids, but wouldn't be for the kids attending wealthy schools. My view is that making Regeneron semifinalist, USA(J)MO, MOP, high levels/training camps for any of the USAPhO, USACO, etc are also life changing, even for the wealthy kids. In FCPS, most of the kids in the mix for any of those honors would need a school like TJ to help nurture their talents.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"In a June 7, 2020, email laying out her racial vision for the school, Bonitatibus said she sought to “close the equity gap” so the school would “reflect the racial composition in FCPS.” That year, the school had about 70% Asian students, about 20% white students and about 10% Black and Hispanic students. During the 2023-2024 school year, FCPS had different racial demographics, mirroring the distribution in the years earlier: 36% white, 29% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiple races, 0.3% Native American or Alaskan Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

She challenged TJ’s racially and ethnically diverse families, some of whom had survived the Cultural Revolution in China and economic poverty in India, to “think of privileges you hold that others may not.” With the new admissions changes, the percentage of Asian students dropped dramatically, with small increases in the number of Black and Hispanic students and larger increases in the number of white students.

Under her leadership, TJ recently fell from its long-held position as the nation’s No. 1 high school to No. 14. Bonitatibus’ tenure was also marked by the controversial withholding of student National Merit awards. This issue drew sharp global criticism. In addition, during her watch, the TJ community was struck by the first suicides of TJ students in the school’s history, with two students tragically passing away in 2018 and 2020.

In September, the number of students recognized as National Merit semifinalists decreased to 81 in the Class of 2025, the first class enrolled in the school after the new admissions changes, from 165 the year before.

The following month, Bonitatibus sent an email to TJ's parents announcing she had “pursued and accepted” a “promotion” to a role in the Fairfax County Public Schools Department of Human Resources as “Executive Director of Talent Acquisition and Management,” a move that was met with widespread skepticism considering a slew of staff and teacher departures from TJ that had marked her stewardship of the school."

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fcps-selects-tjhsst-alum-michael-mukai-to-be-new-principal/article_675df76c-cee9-11ef-9b2a-ab958f33eb91.html

A professional epitaph if I've ever seen one.

Fairfax Times is pushing RWNJ lies.

1. She had no role in TJ admissions.
2. Affluent families have privilege.
3. TJ did not hold the #1 rank often. It was #5 before admission changes.
4. The reform efforts are trying to make TJ less toxic and lower student stress. The race to nowhere only hurts kids.
5. Students were notified about commendations via email. And for college applications they would have known if they were commended several months earlier based on the cut off.


Republicans are lying sacks of sht.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, what can he to actually improve TJ that is 100% within his control?

He can shift the focus back to STEM academics and recognizing students' merit-based efforts, rather than DEI and woke stuff.

Be really specific in describing exactly how Bonitatibus focused on “DEI and woke stuff” in matters of educational policy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wJYHnOyJM&t=3s

At about 13:30 Bonitatibus speaks on this subject during the debate about the admissions change.
She cosigns the whole diversity and representation rationale the board presents for its racial discrimination.

Oh, Asra. I can’t be the only one who is surprised that you have nothing better to do with your time. You were a person of such significance, and now… still tilting at this situation with absolutely no results after four years. Except maybe, just maybe, you got your nemesis a big raise.

The school is entirely populated with students chosen by the new admissions process, and eight of them - the first class of the new process - just made the top 300 in the Regeneron competition. Compared with seven in the class of 2024, and five in the class of 2023.

A staggering objective measure of the top researchers in America’s high schools and the new process has the arrow trending upward.

Go back to picking on the black kids at Hayfield. More people like you when you do that.

The Regeneron finalists chosen by the new admissions policy consist of….7 students that went to “wealthy feeder middle schools”. 1 from McLean (I’m not sure if the student went to Cooper or Longfellow), 3 students from Cooper (one of the Cooper students also went to Langley and then transferred to TJHSST sophomore year), 2 students from Carson, and 1 student from Longfellow. 1 student was from Stone Hill Middle School in Ashburn (this school has a 62% Asian population and a fairly wealthy area of Ashburn).

0 students from any FCPS non-wealthy feeder middle schools. 0 non-Asian students.

DP. And it sounds like these students also didn't go to Curie.

Really? I bet 2 or 3 of them did attend classes at Curie. A high number of South Asian kids in western FCPS and in Loudoun go to Curie.

The PP is full of sht. She doesn’t know who went to Curie or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is she was so good why not have her stay 10 more years either the kpis were to increase diversity and she succeeded or the failing ratings and lowered academics caused them to cut her loose and make her the sacrificial lamb

She applied for a promotion and received it. No one in FCPS was looking to push her out of TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it seems like a good pick. people seem really happy with WSHS so he must be doing a good job there and it seems positive he was a student at TJ back in the day.

I really really hope he continues Dr B’s effort to make the school less stressful for kids than it needs to be. I think that shift has been positive (from what I have heard of before vs what DD there has experienced) and that the kids put enough pressure on themselves already for all As and the hardest classes - the leadership doesn’t need to feed into that frenzy further.

nice try. if fcps was indifferent to the academic decline, they wouldnt be getting rid of Bonita. Th new principal is being brought to change the current course and restore academic excellence. The nonsensical days of convincing students to stay back at TJ and accept Cs and Ds in least rigor courses are coming to end.

I am not a Bonitatibus fan. I think she is a sycophant that threw asian kids under the bus to suck up to FCPS board members.

Honestly, I don't think the FCPS board GAF about TJ academic standing.
They'd get rid of it if they thought they could without losing elections.
It really seems like this was precipitated by her sharing what sounds like public information about TJ with some Chinese company that was interested in making a donation.

I also don't think she did the unprepared kids from under-performing middle schools any favors by convincing them to gut it out with C's.

The environment at TJ has become less stressful.
I think this is largely the result of a wider range of academic ability.
The B students aren't as stressed about getting As and the A students aren't as stressed about getting Bs.
I think the difference between an A and a B used to be much tighter.

Dr. B didn’t do that. Glazer did.

Facts don’t matter to RWNJs. They will stick to their faux narrative.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"In a June 7, 2020, email laying out her racial vision for the school, Bonitatibus said she sought to “close the equity gap” so the school would “reflect the racial composition in FCPS.” That year, the school had about 70% Asian students, about 20% white students and about 10% Black and Hispanic students. During the 2023-2024 school year, FCPS had different racial demographics, mirroring the distribution in the years earlier: 36% white, 29% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiple races, 0.3% Native American or Alaskan Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

She challenged TJ’s racially and ethnically diverse families, some of whom had survived the Cultural Revolution in China and economic poverty in India, to “think of privileges you hold that others may not.” With the new admissions changes, the percentage of Asian students dropped dramatically, with small increases in the number of Black and Hispanic students and larger increases in the number of white students.

Under her leadership, TJ recently fell from its long-held position as the nation’s No. 1 high school to No. 14. Bonitatibus’ tenure was also marked by the controversial withholding of student National Merit awards. This issue drew sharp global criticism. In addition, during her watch, the TJ community was struck by the first suicides of TJ students in the school’s history, with two students tragically passing away in 2018 and 2020.

In September, the number of students recognized as National Merit semifinalists decreased to 81 in the Class of 2025, the first class enrolled in the school after the new admissions changes, from 165 the year before.

The following month, Bonitatibus sent an email to TJ's parents announcing she had “pursued and accepted” a “promotion” to a role in the Fairfax County Public Schools Department of Human Resources as “Executive Director of Talent Acquisition and Management,” a move that was met with widespread skepticism considering a slew of staff and teacher departures from TJ that had marked her stewardship of the school."

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fcps-selects-tjhsst-alum-michael-mukai-to-be-new-principal/article_675df76c-cee9-11ef-9b2a-ab958f33eb91.html

A professional epitaph if I've ever seen one.

Fairfax Times is pushing RWNJ lies.

1. She had no role in TJ admissions.
2. Affluent families have privilege.
3. TJ did not hold the #1 rank often. It was #5 before admission changes.
4. The reform efforts are trying to make TJ less toxic and lower student stress. The race to nowhere only hurts kids.
5. Students were notified about commendations via email. And for college applications they would have known if they were commended several months earlier based on the cut off.


Republicans are lying sacks of sht.

Is that you, Dr. B? You are a human scum and deserve to go to jail with all your lies and bigotry.

[Anonymous]

The new principals main goal is to improve diversity with unrepresented groups, and encourage critical thinking. It is also very unlikely that he will bring the admission test along with some other application processes back, because the FCPS board refuses to listen to this controversy with TJ. Also, the new process is heavily weighted on the 1 question essay test. So, TJ is still choosing top students, just in a different way than standardized testing. They want to choose students who show creative and critical thinking. And that is completely acceptable.

[Anonymous]

Top students at TJ are from the feeders. No one can argue this. But many of these STS students have college consultants helping them. They benefit from wealth and use connections to get on projects with professors. Otherwise they would not be able to do them. Many STS projects are just done by professors who add the student names on to their research. This should already be well known.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"In a June 7, 2020, email laying out her racial vision for the school, Bonitatibus said she sought to “close the equity gap” so the school would “reflect the racial composition in FCPS.” That year, the school had about 70% Asian students, about 20% white students and about 10% Black and Hispanic students. During the 2023-2024 school year, FCPS had different racial demographics, mirroring the distribution in the years earlier: 36% white, 29% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiple races, 0.3% Native American or Alaskan Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

She challenged TJ’s racially and ethnically diverse families, some of whom had survived the Cultural Revolution in China and economic poverty in India, to “think of privileges you hold that others may not.” With the new admissions changes, the percentage of Asian students dropped dramatically, with small increases in the number of Black and Hispanic students and larger increases in the number of white students.

Under her leadership, TJ recently fell from its long-held position as the nation’s No. 1 high school to No. 14. Bonitatibus’ tenure was also marked by the controversial withholding of student National Merit awards. This issue drew sharp global criticism. In addition, during her watch, the TJ community was struck by the first suicides of TJ students in the school’s history, with two students tragically passing away in 2018 and 2020.

In September, the number of students recognized as National Merit semifinalists decreased to 81 in the Class of 2025, the first class enrolled in the school after the new admissions changes, from 165 the year before.

The following month, Bonitatibus sent an email to TJ's parents announcing she had “pursued and accepted” a “promotion” to a role in the Fairfax County Public Schools Department of Human Resources as “Executive Director of Talent Acquisition and Management,” a move that was met with widespread skepticism considering a slew of staff and teacher departures from TJ that had marked her stewardship of the school."

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fcps-selects-tjhsst-alum-michael-mukai-to-be-new-principal/article_675df76c-cee9-11ef-9b2a-ab958f33eb91.html

A professional epitaph if I've ever seen one.

Fairfax Times is pushing RWNJ lies.

1. She had no role in TJ admissions.
2. Affluent families have privilege.
3. TJ did not hold the #1 rank often. It was #5 before admission changes.
4. The reform efforts are trying to make TJ less toxic and lower student stress. The race to nowhere only hurts kids.
5. Students were notified about commendations via email. And for college applications they would have known if they were commended several months earlier based on the cut off.


Republicans are lying sacks of sht.

Is that you, Dr. B? You are a human scum and deserve to go to jail with all your lies and bigotry.

Project much?

Why do RWNJs continue to push such blatant lies when they are so easily debunked? Do they get off on lying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The new principals main goal is to improve diversity with unrepresented groups, and encourage critical thinking. It is also very unlikely that he will bring the admission test along with some other application processes back, because the FCPS board refuses to listen to this controversy with TJ. Also, the new process is heavily weighted on the 1 question essay test. So, TJ is still choosing top students, just in a different way than standardized testing. They want to choose students who show creative and critical thinking. And that is completely acceptable.

The TJ principal does not control admissions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top students at TJ are from the feeders. No one can argue this. But many of these STS students have college consultants helping them. They benefit from wealth and use connections to get on projects with professors. Otherwise they would not be able to do them. Many STS projects are just done by professors who add the student names on to their research. This should already be well known.

Do you have evidence or you’re pulling it from your arse?
Also do you even know that unlike ISEF, STS validates the independence of the projects from multiple angles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"In a June 7, 2020, email laying out her racial vision for the school, Bonitatibus said she sought to “close the equity gap” so the school would “reflect the racial composition in FCPS.” That year, the school had about 70% Asian students, about 20% white students and about 10% Black and Hispanic students. During the 2023-2024 school year, FCPS had different racial demographics, mirroring the distribution in the years earlier: 36% white, 29% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 10% Black, 6% multiple races, 0.3% Native American or Alaskan Native, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.

She challenged TJ’s racially and ethnically diverse families, some of whom had survived the Cultural Revolution in China and economic poverty in India, to “think of privileges you hold that others may not.” With the new admissions changes, the percentage of Asian students dropped dramatically, with small increases in the number of Black and Hispanic students and larger increases in the number of white students.

Under her leadership, TJ recently fell from its long-held position as the nation’s No. 1 high school to No. 14. Bonitatibus’ tenure was also marked by the controversial withholding of student National Merit awards. This issue drew sharp global criticism. In addition, during her watch, the TJ community was struck by the first suicides of TJ students in the school’s history, with two students tragically passing away in 2018 and 2020.

In September, the number of students recognized as National Merit semifinalists decreased to 81 in the Class of 2025, the first class enrolled in the school after the new admissions changes, from 165 the year before.

The following month, Bonitatibus sent an email to TJ's parents announcing she had “pursued and accepted” a “promotion” to a role in the Fairfax County Public Schools Department of Human Resources as “Executive Director of Talent Acquisition and Management,” a move that was met with widespread skepticism considering a slew of staff and teacher departures from TJ that had marked her stewardship of the school."

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fcps-selects-tjhsst-alum-michael-mukai-to-be-new-principal/article_675df76c-cee9-11ef-9b2a-ab958f33eb91.html

A professional epitaph if I've ever seen one.

Fairfax Times is pushing RWNJ lies.

1. She had no role in TJ admissions.
2. Affluent families have privilege.
3. TJ did not hold the #1 rank often. It was #5 before admission changes.
4. The reform efforts are trying to make TJ less toxic and lower student stress. The race to nowhere only hurts kids.
5. Students were notified about commendations via email. And for college applications they would have known if they were commended several months earlier based on the cut off.


Republicans are lying sacks of sht.

+1. It’s not only the principle that chooses the admission process… it’s the school board. So, it’s very very unlikely that the process would change, and even if it did it would take a few years because of disagreement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The new principals main goal is to improve diversity with unrepresented groups, and encourage critical thinking. It is also very unlikely that he will bring the admission test along with some other application processes back, because the FCPS board refuses to listen to this controversy with TJ. Also, the new process is heavily weighted on the 1 question essay test. So, TJ is still choosing top students, just in a different way than standardized testing. They want to choose students who show creative and critical thinking. And that is completely acceptable.

The TJ principal does not control admissions.

What I said must have come out wrong to you then. I know the principal does not control admissions, did you not read the part where I said the FCPS board has to agree? You must have comprehension deficiencies.