TJ Commended Student Emails Released - Who is really responsible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:According to the FCPS email last night, Westfields and Langley also neglected to notify their commended students.

Why haven't the Langley parents spoken up? Westfields I can understand (I'm a Westfields pyramid parent with zero shade towards Westfields), but Langley parents not making a fuss seems odd.

Asra Nomani, Glenn Miller, Harry Jackson, and Carrie Lucas all live in the Langley district.

[Anonymous]

The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Ya, we get it. They notified the students a week later than they could've. It had no impact on anything, and the only people who care are those attempting to make this into a thing to achieve their far-right political aims namely to subvert public education in favor of a gamed system that favors the wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“ South Asians, who comprise about 5% of the catchment area but approximately 45% of TJ students prior to the admissions improvements. ”

Wow. I never heard that before. That’s flooring.

71.8% of nba is black but only 13.6% of US is black….I don’t understand why this is a big deal. Meritocracy….maybe that portion of the population actually focused on education as the most important thing. Full disclosure, my son is white went to TJ and that too was underrepresented vs US and fcps population (although new admission process actually brought the white percentage up). I am all for raising up socially economically disadvantaged in education regardless of race, but it needs to start much earlier than 8th grade TJ admissions. TJ has amazingly great kids. The administrators shouldn’t decide what test, accolade or award is most important….celebrate it all. That is the issue. Regardless if this was an honest error , the truth is they could care less about national merit finalists and maybe that is why it was overlooked…too busy worrying about other things.

Jews are 2% of the population but 20% of the Ivy League, 10% of the us senate, 75% of the core four cabinet roles (doj, state, treasury), 20% of all Nobel prizes won (out of being only .2% world population)

…cream rises to the top.

Colleges introduced geographic diversity rules to try and reduce the number of Jews on campus, around 100 years ago. Now TJ does it to reduce Asian numbers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Ya, we get it. They notified the students a week later than they could've. It had no impact on anything, and the only people who care are those attempting to make this into a thing to achieve their far-right political aims namely to subvert public education in favor of a gamed system that favors the wealthy.

No. TJ finally released the letters one month after being confronted. These letters had a prominent notice with big bolded statement: Please distribute these to students as soon as possible since the commended students will only be notified by these letters and TJ still concealed them deliberately. TJ has done this for several years now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Ya, we get it. They notified the students a week later than they could've. It had no impact on anything, and the only people who care are those attempting to make this into a thing to achieve their far-right political aims namely to subvert public education in favor of a gamed system that favors the wealthy.

No. TJ finally released the letters one month after being confronted. These letters had a prominent notice with big bolded statement: Please distribute these to students as soon as possible since the commended students will only be notified by these letters and TJ still concealed them deliberately. TJ has done this for several years now.

No. They were confronted about the timing AFTER the letters were sent home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

It wasn’t a pivot. Both things are true.

Meanwhile, today a former admissions director weighed in on the matter:

“For a high school student to be designated a National Merit commended student is trivial. Although those students are commended for their score, tens of thousands achieve this status, and it is highly improbable that the presence or absence of this information would have any impact on a college admission decision. Both The Post and the governor of Virginia have wildly overreacted to the latest news from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

As a former director of admission at three major research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis and Michigan State) and a former member of the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, I am certain of this position.”

William H. Turner, Williamsburg, Va.

We can take any idea of actual harm in this situation and throw it out the window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

It wasn’t a pivot. Both things are true.

Meanwhile, today a former admissions director weighed in on the matter:

“For a high school student to be designated a National Merit commended student is trivial. Although those students are commended for their score, tens of thousands achieve this status, and it is highly improbable that the presence or absence of this information would have any impact on a college admission decision. Both The Post and the governor of Virginia have wildly overreacted to the latest news from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

As a former director of admission at three major research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis and Michigan State) and a former member of the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, I am certain of this position.”

William H. Turner, Williamsburg, Va.

We can take any idea of actual harm in this situation and throw it out the window.

Checkmate

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

It wasn’t a pivot. Both things are true.

Meanwhile, today a former admissions director weighed in on the matter:

“For a high school student to be designated a National Merit commended student is trivial. Although those students are commended for their score, tens of thousands achieve this status, and it is highly improbable that the presence or absence of this information would have any impact on a college admission decision. Both The Post and the governor of Virginia have wildly overreacted to the latest news from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

As a former director of admission at three major research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis and Michigan State) and a former member of the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, I am certain of this position.”

William H. Turner, Williamsburg, Va.

We can take any idea of actual harm in this situation and throw it out the window.

Checkmate

Fakenews.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

It wasn’t a pivot. Both things are true.

Meanwhile, today a former admissions director weighed in on the matter:

“For a high school student to be designated a National Merit commended student is trivial. Although those students are commended for their score, tens of thousands achieve this status, and it is highly improbable that the presence or absence of this information would have any impact on a college admission decision. Both The Post and the governor of Virginia have wildly overreacted to the latest news from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

As a former director of admission at three major research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis and Michigan State) and a former member of the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, I am certain of this position.”

William H. Turner, Williamsburg, Va.

We can take any idea of actual harm in this situation and throw it out the window.

Ouch.

[Anonymous]

Yes. That’s what all the rational TJ students and parents have been saying. No one gives a hoot if you’re “commended.” Including colleges. Get over it.

[Anonymous]

Three (at least) FCPS high schools have not immediately notified students of their commended status. What about non-FCPS high schools? Do the promptly mail those commended letters or does it sometimes take a little while? Is Miyares investigating every high school in the Commonwealth?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The local Democrats have finally realized that minimizing the significance of getting a Letter of Commendation, or otherwise saying the failure to notify students was no big deal, is a losing strategy that makes them look like a bunch of out-of-touch elitists ("equity is at the center of everything we do, although your kid is a loser if they only scored in the top 3% and not just the top 1%").

They are now pivoting to complaining that Miyares' investigation is a case of selective prosecution (that is, that he's only looking into this so he can embarrass FCPS, the school system for a largely Democratic county).

That's a better strategy, but it's sure taken them an awfully long time to get there.

Anonymous people on DCUM throwing out facts isn’t a “political strategy”.

The local Democratic activists are kind of a hive mind on Twitter. They were all saying variations of the same thing about the late LOC notifications for a while, and then they pivoted to the "he just wants to 'own the libs'" angle.

It wasn’t a pivot. Both things are true.

Meanwhile, today a former admissions director weighed in on the matter:

“For a high school student to be designated a National Merit commended student is trivial. Although those students are commended for their score, tens of thousands achieve this status, and it is highly improbable that the presence or absence of this information would have any impact on a college admission decision. Both The Post and the governor of Virginia have wildly overreacted to the latest news from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

As a former director of admission at three major research universities (Carnegie Mellon, Washington University in St. Louis and Michigan State) and a former member of the National Merit Scholarship Selection Committee, I am certain of this position.”

William H. Turner, Williamsburg, Va.

We can take any idea of actual harm in this situation and throw it out the window.

Never heard of this guy and I don't see why his beliefs are any more credible than the beliefs of any other person.