December 17 - TJ decision?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why are black people always using Asians as a scapegoat? It feels like blacks try to take out their frustrations on Asians.

When I was growing up, black kids made fun of me and my brother. The white kids at school never did this. I clearly remember many Asian small businesses being looted during the Rodney king riots.

To fix systemic racism against blacks, come after the Asians.

WHAT? Black people fought so Asians could come here. When you got here, we supported you. We allowed you to open businesses in our neighborhoods and patronized those businesses wouldnt you couldnt get such support in the white neighborhoods. Every business was being looted during the riots, not just the Asians. Since you grew up in LA, do you remember Natasha Harlins? Blacks arent the ones coming after you, looks the other way around to me.
Black's are aware the problem is white supremacy, but when asians get screwed by the system, you wanna show white mommy and daddy how you are with them by screwing the Blacks whenever necessary.

I'd bet that there's greater than 0% chance that PP wasn't really Asian.

A lot of Asians have a great disdain for Black people. It’s unfortunate, but this is true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

Oh my goodness you all don’t even know how racist you sound. I said don’t say “blacks” not don’t say Black (and remember to capitalize the B). Use google and look up why.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

Oh my goodness you all don’t even know how racist you sound. I said don’t say “blacks” not don’t say Black (and remember to capitalize the B). Use google and look up why.

I have never known to capitalize b. I don’t capitalize white. I don’t think b is capitalized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a link to watch/listen to the Board Meeting?

There will be links and live streams when the meeting is taking place: https://www.fcps.edu/school-board/school-board-meetings

The sheer amount of time they have chewed up obsessing about the admissions policy to a single high school - TJ - is obscene. It would be outrageous under any circumstances for a school district with 198 schools and centers; it is particularly egregious when kids are not even able to attend schools in-person. And most of their discussions have been about how students should be selected for TJ. Almost no time has been spent evaluating the impact of a change in TJ admissions policy on other schools.

One has to ask whether this nonsense only occurred because Scott Brabrand fears for his job and decided his best shot at getting his contract renewed was to suck up to the School Board members who dislike TJ, but don't have the guts to discontinue the Governor's School program.

I think it's insanely ridiculous as well, and I actually like TJ. The amount of wasted time and resources spent on changing the admissions (yet again) vs putting in hold, keeping it as is for this year, and instead focusing on all the other important issues during this pandemic is absolutely silly.

+10,000. Why is FCPS so stupid and cruel? What about the thousands of URMs in FCPS who actually need a basic education? Brabrand should be ashamed. And stop messing with success.

Uh, because your idiot Dem governor thought this was a good idea maybe?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

Oh my goodness you all don’t even know how racist you sound. I said don’t say “blacks” not don’t say Black (and remember to capitalize the B). Use google and look up why.

I have never known to capitalize b. I don’t capitalize white. I don’t think b is capitalized.

If you’re not going to do a freaking google search just admit you’re racist and stop writing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

Oh my goodness you all don’t even know how racist you sound. I said don’t say “blacks” not don’t say Black (and remember to capitalize the B). Use google and look up why.

I have never known to capitalize b. I don’t capitalize white. I don’t think b is capitalized.

If you’re not going to do a freaking google search just admit you’re racist and stop writing.

Don't be a d*ck about it. Just educate people that racial groups are now to be treated as proper nouns in writing and should be capitalized. This includes White and Black or Asian and Hispanic. The same goes for ethnic groups and we no longer hyphenate terms, e.g., it Asian American not Asian-American and African American not African-American. So Black is fine, but black is not when referring to the racial group. These rules are in the APA Style guide.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Black students actually aren’t “so underrepresented” in AAP. Just look at the data. They are however severely underrepresented at TJ. Also, please don’t say “blacks”.

Huh? Last I checked that was the appropriate word to use to refer to that racial group. Just like we'd say "whites," "Asians," "Hispanics," etc.

No kidding. This whole summer was “BLACK Lives Matter”. The proper term for that racial group is in fact “black.”

Oh my goodness you all don’t even know how racist you sound. I said don’t say “blacks” not don’t say Black (and remember to capitalize the B). Use google and look up why.

I have never known to capitalize b. I don’t capitalize white. I don’t think b is capitalized.

If you’re not going to do a freaking google search just admit you’re racist and stop writing.

Don't be a d*ck about it. Just educate people that racial groups are now to be treated as proper nouns in writing and should be capitalized. This includes White and Black or Asian and Hispanic. The same goes for ethnic groups and we no longer hyphenate terms, e.g., it Asian American not Asian-American and African American not African-American. So Black is fine, but black is not when referring to the racial group. These rules are in the APA Style guide.

I have to admit, I never heard this before and assumed it was some SJW being all high and mighty. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Who agreed to all those rules? Removing the hyphen makes no sense.

[Anonymous]

Part of the point is to keep making up new rules that are hard to keep up with, so activists can point fingers at people who are insufficiently woke. What OP isn’t telling you is that “Black” is now mandatory is certain circles, but “White” rather than “white” is deemed racist as if you might as well be a charter member of the KKK.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Part of the point is to keep making up new rules that are hard to keep up with, so activists can point fingers at people who are insufficiently woke. What OP isn’t telling you is that “Black” is now mandatory is certain circles, but “White” rather than “white” is deemed racist as if you might as well be a charter member of the KKK.

And don't forget latinx. Make sure you use that term even though no latinos do. Make sure you show the latinos how they've been saying it wrong for millennia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Part of the point is to keep making up new rules that are hard to keep up with, so activists can point fingers at people who are insufficiently woke. What OP isn’t telling you is that “Black” is now mandatory is certain circles, but “White” rather than “white” is deemed racist as if you might as well be a charter member of the KKK.

And don't forget latinx. Make sure you use that term even though no latinos do. Make sure you show the latinos how they've been saying it wrong for millennia.

Or POC becoming BIPOC so Asians can be treated as white, whether they want to or not.

[Anonymous]

I'd always assumed that it was lowercase for the same reason we write "math" and "English" instead of "Math" and "English," that is, that the uppercase was the exception rather than the rule. I really don't see what's gained by calling people racist for not knowing it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd always assumed that it was lowercase for the same reason we write "math" and "English" instead of "Math" and "English," that is, that the uppercase was the exception rather than the rule. I really don't see what's gained by calling people racist for not knowing it.

Agreed. The rules were that geographic categories of persons are capitalized (like Asian, Appalachian, Japanese, European) but categories based on color are not (caucasian, white, black). That is probably still true in Strunk & White or elsewhere. However, the Associated Press guidelines did away with the hyphens and requires capital letter for colors when used to identify a racial group. Wokeness.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd always assumed that it was lowercase for the same reason we write "math" and "English" instead of "Math" and "English," that is, that the uppercase was the exception rather than the rule. I really don't see what's gained by calling people racist for not knowing it.

Agreed. The rules were that geographic categories of persons are capitalized (like Asian, Appalachian, Japanese, European) but categories based on color are not (caucasian, white, black). That is probably still true in Strunk & White or elsewhere. However, the Associated Press guidelines did away with the hyphens and requires capital letter for colors when used to identify a racial group. Wokeness.

The AP guidelines capitalize Black but not white. No one else is required to follow their conventions. The point here is that the woke army (or is that Woke Army) treats Asian Americans as White to advance their own agenda that only Black and Brown people face discrimination and that kicking Asian kids out of TJ is anti-racist.