TJ is so done...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Órale. My son got accepted to TJ but after reading all these post I am not sure is the right place for us. Is there at least a Taco Night?

Not right now.. Maybe you can start one?

Sure it would be welcomed and enjoyed. I would take this thread with a grain of salt-people with agendas. If you child enjoys stems and is willing to work hard they will enjoy and get a lot out of Tj

When my recent graduate was at TJ, in pre-COVID times, it ran on food. And I have to tell you for my sports obsessed, prepped by doing the TJ admissions on line practice tests, white boy it was great. He was exposed to so many different foods and cultures and IMO since he's focused on a STEM carrier this was for the good. I agree the admissions process needed some reform. Whether this scorched earth policy was the right reform only time will tell. What I saw as the benefit of TJ was that my kid was around other kids who took academics more seriously than at the base HS his sibling attends. The base HS is still a great school, just has a different focus. YMMV

I can't help but believe these admission changes are just a first step and they'll get better at it in the years to come. The intent of creating a more inclusive environment that is less skewed toward prep is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Órale. My son got accepted to TJ but after reading all these post I am not sure is the right place for us. Is there at least a Taco Night?

Not right now.. Maybe you can start one?

Sure it would be welcomed and enjoyed. I would take this thread with a grain of salt-people with agendas. If you child enjoys stems and is willing to work hard they will enjoy and get a lot out of Tj

When my recent graduate was at TJ, in pre-COVID times, it ran on food. And I have to tell you for my sports obsessed, prepped by doing the TJ admissions on line practice tests, white boy it was great. He was exposed to so many different foods and cultures and IMO since he's focused on a STEM carrier this was for the good. I agree the admissions process needed some reform. Whether this scorched earth policy was the right reform only time will tell. What I saw as the benefit of TJ was that my kid was around other kids who took academics more seriously than at the base HS his sibling attends. The base HS is still a great school, just has a different focus. YMMV

I can't help but believe these admission changes are just a first step and they'll get better at it in the years to come. The intent of creating a more inclusive environment that is less skewed toward prep is a good thing.

First put the stop TJ prep to colleges, 4 to 5 hours sleep and no weekends..

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Anonymous wrote:You can either have a top-tier STEM magnet school or you can have a school that "looks like Fairfax" and has quotas. You can't have both.

2024 will be the last batch based on merit. They have messed up the whole system.

Sorry to break it to you, but TJ was a top magnet long before many of the Asians who are so hard pressed to get in even arrived in this country.

This sums up the whole motivation behind this "equity" push. The URMs are a pawn...the goal was to make TJ white again.

[Anonymous]

Fine by me, you can just go to McLean and that's where the good student are and you can just pay more to get in to the neighborhood

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You can either have a top-tier STEM magnet school or you can have a school that "looks like Fairfax" and has quotas. You can't have both.

2024 will be the last batch based on merit. They have messed up the whole system.

Sorry to break it to you, but TJ was a top magnet long before many of the Asians who are so hard pressed to get in even arrived in this country.

This sums up the whole motivation behind this "equity" push. The URMs are a pawn...the goal was to make TJ white again.

I don’t here any complaints about the white kids getting in though. It seems to be the URM’s they don’t want

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

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It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm really glad to see FCPS and the School Board spend 50% of their time on TJHSST, a school attended by roughly 3% of FCPS high school students.

The remaining 97% and their high schools generally never get any attention from FCPS, unless their names are being changed, but by all means let's have some more work sessions and reports written so that 20% of that 3% can be Black and Hispanic. Clearly nothing else will demonstrate Brabrand's commitment to "equity in all he does" than jumping through more hoops to make sure that 0.6% go to TJ.

The incompetence of this school system is staggering.

Agree 100%. Sounds like Braband is a coward. M

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

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It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

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It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

Never underestimate the bitterness of parents who feel entitled to gaming the system.

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

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It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

Sure. First, you impose geographic minimums to save seats for kids from “traditionally underrepresented schools.” Then you give bonus points to applicants with certain “experience factors” like being FARMS. If applicants had to have blue eyes and pee standing up that would technically be race and gender blind.

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

+1
It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

Never underestimate the bitterness of parents who feel entitled to gaming the system.

It's more like never underestimate the frustration of parents with the endless attention to gaming the system.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

+1
It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

Google Disparate Impact. Report Back.

If you have hard quotas from schools and socioeconomic groups where Asian students are not, you get fewer Asians. A TJ parent ran a simulation based on racial composition and SES of schools and ended up very close to the actual demographics of the incoming class.

“We’re tired of tiger parent parenting amd prep (which we stereotype as. Ding Asian things), so we are going to stop taking most kids who app,y from the heavily Asian AAP Centers and force most kids to come from crappy MSs with very few Asians, achieved by a hard quota. Then, we are going to devalue advanced math, which most Asians take” is also illegal.

Even the Judge who ruled against the SB in the motion to dismiss the litigation against them said they were fooling anyone and this was clearly an attempt to decrease Asian students. The issue is whether artificially depressing Asian eligibility is illegal. (It should be).

— white parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's starting to sound a lot like the old trope of trying to make people ashamed of being smart. My parents weren't exactly what I'd call wealthy, but they prioritized their spending by buying textbooks for me to practice from. The people complaining about tiger moms are being terrible

+1

+1
It's essentially an affirmation action policy, which is obviously racist. It's amazing that athletics haven't been impacted by the "equity" sickos.

That's amazing since admissions are race-blind. It's like magic!

Google Disparate Impact. Report Back.

If you have hard quotas from schools and socioeconomic groups where Asian students are not, you get fewer Asians. A TJ parent ran a simulation based on racial composition and SES of schools and ended up very close to the actual demographics of the incoming class.

“We’re tired of tiger parent parenting amd prep (which we stereotype as. Ding Asian things), so we are going to stop taking most kids who app,y from the heavily Asian AAP Centers and force most kids to come from crappy MSs with very few Asians, achieved by a hard quota. Then, we are going to devalue advanced math, which most Asians take” is also illegal.

Even the Judge who ruled against the SB in the motion to dismiss the litigation against them said they were fooling anyone and this was clearly an attempt to decrease Asian students. The issue is whether artificially depressing Asian eligibility is illegal. (It should be).

— white parent.

+1. White parent.

[Anonymous]

So I don’t get this. Everyone says TJ students will not be desirable to colleges if admissions to TJ takes more than standardized tests and hard core Mathcounts and Science Olympiad into their decision making. But colleges say they want more then one dimensional over achievers. They want kids with more dimension and life experience points etc. so won’t a change inTJ admissions better align with what the top colleges say they want?

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Anonymous wrote:So I don’t get this. Everyone says TJ students will not be desirable to colleges if admissions to TJ takes more than standardized tests and hard core Mathcounts and Science Olympiad into their decision making. But colleges say they want more then one dimensional over achievers. They want kids with more dimension and life experience points etc. so won’t a change inTJ admissions better align with what the top colleges say they want?

Yes, and this will be the part that drives the status quo crowd the most crazy. All of a sudden, you’re going to start seeing higher percentages of TJ kids admitted to Ivies and other top schools. Because the old admissions process incentivized the wrong kind of behavior for creating attractive students and leaders.