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Anonymous
It should be moved to the AAP forum |
Anonymous
They're not. No one in DC privates give a damn about TJ or schools in VA |
Anonymous
OP, #1) I'm a person for color. #2) I have sent my kids to a private school in MD #3) Why are you so angry and vengeful? #4) Any change causes frustration, whether in rich or poor neighborhoods #5) Most people don't care about what's going on at TJ. If you actually talk with people, real live people, most don't even know that TJ exists. #6) This thread doesn't belong in Private/Independent Schools...maybe Jeff should create a random vent forum To the person who works for a middling newspaper: I'm fascinated that you "low key" threatened to write an article if this thread gets deleted. To summarize, you threatened to do your job (!) if something inconsequential as a thread gets deleted on a website that hardly anyone reads except for a handful of rich people (no offense Jeff). Ha! Here's a pro tip, do your job to be good at your job, report on something that is newsworthy, and meet with real people that you can quote (not anonymous internet trolls). |
Anonymous
Nope they don't. |
Anonymous
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I've never seen the fragile soccer moms on this forum rage harder in my life lol! There are literally multiple TJ threads on the front page but this is the only one that's off topic somehow hahaha
I think OP might be on to something... |
Anonymous
"I'm not a bigot for wanting to keep AA kids out of my school! You are!" Now that's good stuff. Funny how AA kids "dumb down" a school suddenly. Call me a bigot again if it makes you feel better. Sorry folks if you don't want your kids around AA students you gotta shell out the 50K/yr now. No more free rides for the beltway elites. |
Anonymous
Right on gadfly! Let's talk about soccer and other sports on the private school forum too. Then when "they" say that this should be moved to the sports forum, we'll have a good laugh about that too! We are so winning at everything! |
Anonymous
Excuse me is this a subtle call to dox me? My husband is federal and I absolutely don't have to feel threatened to have my personal information exposed. These past four years have been trying enough for media without sycophants like you bandwagoning too. What gives you the right to ask for me to be doxxed for expressing an opinion, or even my constitutional rights? |
Anonymous
There's only one other TJ thread on the front page, and it is asking about the impact of TJ admission change to private schools. It's a fair subject/ question, but this one is not. |
Anonymous
NP, posted here for years. I've never seen a call for a TJ thread to get removed for being off topic until right now. Their lottery system is obviously important to many private schools parents and to pretend otherwise is absurd. |
Anonymous
Simmer down! I didn’t ask for you to be doxed. I said that it’s rich for a reporter to hide his/her anonymity while spewing nonsense. |
Anonymous
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From Sami:
Lottery is wrong because 1. It will destroy TJ's standard and ranking. The goal / definite outcome is downgrade of TJ to a normal good high school. If you look at the presentation (page 25) FCPS superintendent made to the board, he listed some schools which are good and use lottery as intake method. If you look at the rank of those schools, some are in 100, 600. If TJ starts lottery TJ will be one of those. Some sample schools he listed are - Raisbeck Aviation High School, WA with niche.com rank 272, US news rank 108; - International community school, Washington; niche.com rank 157, US news did not rank the school. 2. Lowering of quality will be extended to future. Student body that will enter through lottery will do worse than usual noting the fact that even students who go through admission test struggle at TJ. Then teachers will be asked to dumb down the test so the advocates of lottery look better. AP courses all have structured test which will manifest the degradation in quality. Unless colleges change their admission criteria TJ students will not go to top colleges in usual proportion. 3. About 5% of TJ students finally selected had "Algebra 1" in 8th std. Rest are higher (Geometry 1, Trig etc.). For FCPS that means they took algebra in grade 7 which in turn means they were top percentile in Iowa Test. Now, Algebra 1 students will be more. Lowering standard again. 4. "Merit" is a falsely used word here. Life only measures , rewards "preparedness for a role". Standardized test is very good (not perfect) at measuring it. Most other methods cannot cite success over long time. Lottery does not even care for it. If someone disagrees we can measure. Take 90% of students through admission test and take 10% through lottery. Track their grades for 4 years and the colleges they go to. If the results converge then make lottery the process of admission. 5. If you look at the presentation FCPS superintendent made he mentioned what has been tried to admit more "economically disadvantaged" student (page 6). He acted as if he tried everything he possible could but still did not get the result. If you notice carefully FCPS did nothing to "improve the quality" of "economically disadvantaged". Only action (outreach) that could have benefited them was curtailed. He kept on changing the structure of the test and of course did not get result. In case you have any doubt about the information here is what he presented. Unless someone is absolutely dumb he would not expect these changes to help "economically disadvantaged" 2011 (Class of 2016) –Outreach Specialist Position Created 2013 (Class of 2018) –Holistic Review , Student Information Sheet proctored 2014 (Class of 2019) –Sliding Scale Adjusted, Minimum semifinalist requirements lowered 2015 (Class of 2020) –Problem Solving Essay Added 2016 (Class of 2021) –Outreach Specialist Reduced to 0.5 Position 2017 (Class of 2022) –New Tests Introduced, Quant-Q and ACT Aspire Reading & Science These changes have not made a significant impact on the application pool or admitted student demographics This reminds me of going to Iraq war . Saddam was a bad person and removing him was a good goal. But Iraq war was the wrong choice. But this is what jingoism, zealots do. They focus on 1 topic and completely ignore everything else. Fortunately, people will not die if this passes. However, lot of hard work backed dreams will die. More importantly, an institution that took long time to build will die. |
Anonymous
| I live in MD and had to look up this TJ. Why is this relevant to the private school forum and why would any private school parents care about a public school lottery? |
Anonymous
Go to the dozen TJ threads in AAP. It’s not a private. We actually don’t compare our school to TJ nor send kids there. Look forward to your article. I’m sure it will be great and full of irrelevant facts. Where do you write now so we can plan to see the article in print? |
Anonymous
| Many of you people need an effing hobby. |