Northam’s “Anti-Asian, Anti-Immigrant” School Initiative

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Anonymous wrote:You can tell the mindset of many petty parents from some of the preceding posts: "my kids cant get in so shut it down"

Mind your own business and worry about your own child, not others.

It’s everyone in the county’s business that FCPS is running a segregated school. This school must change or end.

Especially because there is some compelling information that the admissions process is being compromised. Per the other thread, how is it possible that one company is responsible for prepping 25% of the children admitted to TJ? And that company appears to ONLY prep children with Indian surnames?

Not every prep company is segregated, but this particular company appears to be. And the head of the company spoke at the LCPS school board meeting when they were considering scaling back the number of LCPS students they would pay to attend TJ. He rallied his students and their parents to all speak and forced the school board to backtrack on their plans. It is mind-boggling that FCPS, LCPS, and PWCS have all allowed the prep industry to dictate the admissions process for a public school.

Someone should let Hannah Natanson at the Post know about this. This is scandalous.

This company should be investigated as well as the students who may have participated in cheating.

Other than that - nothing is wrong with parents advocating for sending their children to better schools.

Over 25% of the incoming class of 2024 prepped with this company. How do you propose that we fix this? It is what it is and FCPS will not want to call attention to it OR actually fix it.

Start with investigating the company and allegations of cheating on entry exams. Its not really that complicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having the #1 school in the country is not an embarrassment. Of all the silly arguments...

It is when it’s nothing that plenty of other jurisdictions could have if they wanted, yet manages to be highly segregated and rife with test prep irregularities.

If it were running smoothly there wouldn’t be a state task force considering whether it can be salvaged.

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Anonymous wrote:You can tell the mindset of many petty parents from some of the preceding posts: "my kids cant get in so shut it down"

Mind your own business and worry about your own child, not others.

It’s everyone in the county’s business that FCPS is running a segregated school. This school must change or end.

Especially because there is some compelling information that the admissions process is being compromised. Per the other thread, how is it possible that one company is responsible for prepping 25% of the children admitted to TJ? And that company appears to ONLY prep children with Indian surnames?

Not every prep company is segregated, but this particular company appears to be. And the head of the company spoke at the LCPS school board meeting when they were considering scaling back the number of LCPS students they would pay to attend TJ. He rallied his students and their parents to all speak and forced the school board to backtrack on their plans. It is mind-boggling that FCPS, LCPS, and PWCS have all allowed the prep industry to dictate the admissions process for a public school.

Someone should let Hannah Natanson at the Post know about this. This is scandalous.

This company should be investigated as well as the students who may have participated in cheating.

Other than that - nothing is wrong with parents advocating for sending their children to better schools.

Over 25% of the incoming class of 2024 prepped with this company. How do you propose that we fix this? It is what it is and FCPS will not want to call attention to it OR actually fix it.

Start with investigating the company and allegations of cheating on entry exams. Its not really that complicated.

Why would FCPS do this? If there was cheating (and there's a good chance that there was) they would never want it to come to light. Much easier to just sweep it under the rug and continue on as always

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Having the #1 school in the country is not an embarrassment. Of all the silly arguments...

It is when it’s nothing that plenty of other jurisdictions could have if they wanted, yet manages to be highly segregated and rife with test prep irregularities.

If it were running smoothly there wouldn’t be a state task force considering whether it can be salvaged.

What is your source for asserting this?

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Anonymous wrote:You can tell the mindset of many petty parents from some of the preceding posts: "my kids cant get in so shut it down"

Mind your own business and worry about your own child, not others.

It’s everyone in the county’s business that FCPS is running a segregated school. This school must change or end.

Especially because there is some compelling information that the admissions process is being compromised. Per the other thread, how is it possible that one company is responsible for prepping 25% of the children admitted to TJ? And that company appears to ONLY prep children with Indian surnames?

Not every prep company is segregated, but this particular company appears to be. And the head of the company spoke at the LCPS school board meeting when they were considering scaling back the number of LCPS students they would pay to attend TJ. He rallied his students and their parents to all speak and forced the school board to backtrack on their plans. It is mind-boggling that FCPS, LCPS, and PWCS have all allowed the prep industry to dictate the admissions process for a public school.

Someone should let Hannah Natanson at the Post know about this. This is scandalous.

This company should be investigated as well as the students who may have participated in cheating.

Other than that - nothing is wrong with parents advocating for sending their children to better schools.

Over 25% of the incoming class of 2024 prepped with this company. How do you propose that we fix this? It is what it is and FCPS will not want to call attention to it OR actually fix it.

Start with investigating the company and allegations of cheating on entry exams. Its not really that complicated.

Why would FCPS do this? If there was cheating (and there's a good chance that there was) they would never want it to come to light. Much easier to just sweep it under the rug and continue on as always

FCPS doesn't investigate cheating?

[Anonymous]

I wonder if OP knew this story about test prep cheating was about to break and tried to defuse it by casting any scrutiny as “Anti-Asian, Anti-Immigrant.”

It sounds like major reforms are needed. Maybe it’s time to return TJ to use by the local community.

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Close TJ and expect to see a decent amount of my community move to Montgomery county.

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Anonymous wrote:Close TJ and expect to see a decent amount of my community move to Montgomery county.

I don’t have a dog in this fight because I doubt my AAP kid will be interested in TJ and we are on the other end of the county, but this is correct. I doubt FCPS will ever get rid of TJ or do away with AAP in its entirety, because those programs attract a lot of UMC/UC professional families to the area and they pay a lot in property taxes. People will absolutely take their families and money elsewhere if they feel like they aren’t getting a decent ROI with public schools, especially when telework is so available within the IT sector.

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The problem that the "Close TJ/End AAP" crowd doesnt want to acknowledge is that the issues poor performing students face has nothing to do with the students at TJ or in AAP. Closing TJ and ending AAP will not boost poor performing schools. Family and parenting issues impact performance and no amount of money thrown at those problems will help.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem that the "Close TJ/End AAP" crowd doesnt want to acknowledge is that the issues poor performing students face has nothing to do with the students at TJ or in AAP. Closing TJ and ending AAP will not boost poor performing schools. Family and parenting issues impact performance and no amount of money thrown at those problems will help.

+1,000,000 and on that note probably time to lock the thread

Of course the democrats Northam on down are hell bent on finding a problem where there is none to appease their woke/SJW extremists.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem that the "Close TJ/End AAP" crowd doesnt want to acknowledge is that the issues poor performing students face has nothing to do with the students at TJ or in AAP. Closing TJ and ending AAP will not boost poor performing schools. Family and parenting issues impact performance and no amount of money thrown at those problems will help.

Oh it might boost scores in those schools, but it won't actually raise the scores of kids who are struggling.

One side doesn't want to acknowledge that TJ is essentially special education for the top 2% of students.

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Anonymous wrote:The problem that the "Close TJ/End AAP" crowd doesnt want to acknowledge is that the issues poor performing students face has nothing to do with the students at TJ or in AAP. Closing TJ and ending AAP will not boost poor performing schools. Family and parenting issues impact performance and no amount of money thrown at those problems will help.

Oh it might boost scores in those schools, but it won't actually raise the scores of kids who are struggling.

One side doesn't want to acknowledge that TJ is essentially special education for the top 2% of students.

What you say is true. But it is also true that many upper and middle class residents that came to the county for AAP and/or TJ would be leaving. And those struggling schools still wouldnt get a boost from those former AAP and TJ students.

AAP is a huge reason families come here. I know we would look to live elsewhere if AAP went away. Its the biggest thing that draws people to Fairfax. Once Fairfax is not considered one of the best school systems in the country, home prices will sink like stones, along with the tax base that supports those same struggling schools.

[Anonymous]

The school needs a major over haul in its admissions and anti cheating policies. 80% Asian? What’s that about? And don’t tell me they just test better.

[Anonymous]

Most of those kids have been prepping and cheating together since they were 8 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:Most of those kids have been prepping and cheating together since they were 8 years old.

You mean aunt Becky and her friends’ kids?