Supreme Court Refuses to Take Up TJ Admissions

[Anonymous]

what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

The moderator properly erased a series of posts that began by focusing on a kid rather than an adult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

just stick to your Test Buying cock-and-bull, why start new ones and get into trouble

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

The moderator properly erased a series of posts that began by focusing on a kid rather than an adult.

Racists gone wild.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

The moderator properly erased a series of posts that began by focusing on a kid rather than an adult.

people who hold hatred in their hearts don't limit it to adults, unfortunately they also extend it to kids

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do they determine the top 1.5%? Surely a lot of kids in the same middle school are going to have straight A's in the core subjects and will be in honors classes. Certainly more kids in each school will meet that criteria and want to go than the 10-15 that get selected.

Using lottery selection

That is literally false. Applicants are scored on a variety of factors, including grades, a proctored problem-solving essay, and the student portrait sheet, plus experience factors. It is not a lottery. The fact that the criteria are not your preferred criteria does not make it a lottery.

Everyone is going to have great grades and most serious candidates will do well on the test. An native english speaking kid with middle class parents and no IEP will score zero on experience factors. That's going to be most applicants from traditional feeders. When everyone has the same scores, it's a lottery

Thank you for conceding that the test effectively screens out non-serious candidates. So the students who get through both have top grades and are serious candidates for admission to TJ. That’s not a lottery; it’s an effective admissions process.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what just happened? Equity warrior had a slip of tongue, it got erased?

Not sure, but the highest court in the land has stamped the previous decision. Can we put this behind us and just move on?

It’s not the end of the world if your kids don’t make it to TJ. The local public schools in Northern Virginia are great and we have excellent privates here too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

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Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

What cheating? Who was involved?

[Anonymous]

When the test scores for the Class of 2025 and later classes start to come out, things will get interesting. Until then, it's just a bunch of PR from the same usual suspects either defending the change in admissions policy that the School Board members who approved it didn't even understand at the time or attacking the changes because they view them as a personal, anti-Asian assault on their identity.

[Anonymous]

They would improve the changes immensely by doing 1 simple thing - resuming teacher recommendations. That would ensure the tippy top kids from a given MS get picked whereas now it's hard to identify them vs. other applicants at the same MS. Do that, plus group kids with their base MS not attending MS (to avoid penalizing AAP MSs), leave the rest alone and call it a day.

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Anonymous wrote:They would improve the changes immensely by doing 1 simple thing - resuming teacher recommendations. That would ensure the tippy top kids from a given MS get picked whereas now it's hard to identify them vs. other applicants at the same MS. Do that, plus group kids with their base MS not attending MS (to avoid penalizing AAP MSs), leave the rest alone and call it a day.

Several School Board members who voted for the admissions changes didn't even realize that's what they were doing until after they approved the admissions change.

But it was about representation, not merit: incentivize the top kids to attend AAP centers and then reward the kids who didn't make the cut with set-aside seats at TJ at schools without AAP.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

What cheating? Who was involved?

Students at TJ are minors so there are obvious privacy considerations for the school. A friend of mine taught math there for years and says that they know of many incidents of cheating that occurred over the years, but as a professional never talks about specifics. I recall newspaper stories about cheating there from years ago- you may be able to Google them.

Is it a bigger problem at TJ than at any other high school? Hard to say. Possibly gets more attention at TJ than at other schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

What cheating? Who was involved?

Students at TJ are minors so there are obvious privacy considerations for the school. A friend of mine taught math there for years and says that they know of many incidents of cheating that occurred over the years, but as a professional never talks about specifics. I recall newspaper stories about cheating there from years ago- you may be able to Google them.

Is it a bigger problem at TJ than at any other high school? Hard to say. Possibly gets more attention at TJ than at other schools.

You are fabricating falsehoods, and your clues reveal that it's untrue. Envy can drive people to fabricate stories. While there may be a few bad apples in a truckload of apple baskets, condemning the entire truck is foolish. Previously, there were isolated incidents, but now cheating is consistent, especially in the last four years, and everyone knows what has changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The school had become rampant with cheating. Mediocre minds perfectly prepared for a specific entrance exam.
The current process returns the school to what it once was. A special place for genuinely special students.

This is of the vein that everyone understands to be the core issue. The rampant cheating and hyper fixation on testing created an entire class of peculiar, herd-like students, often more like automatons than people. And removing all testing without a thoughtful litmus test, only served to lower the barrier of entrance.

We do not want to lower the overall pool of quality applicants nor keep the unspeakably dreary composition that it has become.

What cheating? Who was involved?

Students at TJ are minors so there are obvious privacy considerations for the school. A friend of mine taught math there for years and says that they know of many incidents of cheating that occurred over the years, but as a professional never talks about specifics. I recall newspaper stories about cheating there from years ago- you may be able to Google them.

Is it a bigger problem at TJ than at any other high school? Hard to say. Possibly gets more attention at TJ than at other schools.

You are fabricating falsehoods, and your clues reveal that it's untrue. Envy can drive people to fabricate stories. While there may be a few bad apples in a truckload of apple baskets, condemning the entire truck is foolish. Previously, there were isolated incidents, but now cheating is consistent, especially in the last four years, and everyone knows what has changed.

The first three sentences of your paragraph would like a word with the last sentence of your paragraph.