New TJ principal announced

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Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.

Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?

Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?

She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.

It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.

How much of the student body was asian?

If then number was anywhere close to 75% then she was addressing a predominantly asian audience with that comment wasn't she?

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.

Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.

Or at least limit enrollment to the right kind of student i.e. those who can afford to purchase the test answers!

If that were really the standard, TJ would be overwhelmingly white. Because the affluent families in FCPS are overwhelmingly white.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's hope this new principal is half as good as the last one! They brought TJ to all new highs. Those will be some tough shoes to fill.

Poor attempt at humor, PP.

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.

Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.

Or at least limit enrollment to the right kind of student i.e. those who can afford to purchase the test answers!

If that were really the standard, TJ would be overwhelmingly white. Because the affluent families in FCPS are overwhelmingly white.

"Overwhelmingly" is a bit of a stretch. And not all parents paying for the expensive prep are in FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.

Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?

Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?

She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.

It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.

How much of the student body was asian?

If then number was anywhere close to 75% then she was addressing a predominantly asian audience with that comment wasn't she?

TJ is majority Asian students, but the message was meant for everyone. All principals sent out a similar message around that time - even Mukai.

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.

Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.

DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.

DP or no DP, ... Sockpuppetry shows!

I am a DP and I'm not sockpuppeting. Feel free to ask Jeff.

Not that you care about facts...

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

You can't think of any reason why they would want to pretend that the current admits are just as good as (if not better than) the prior admits?

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.

DP. Academic ability is not evenly distributed geographically, socioeconomically or racially.

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

That's why GPAs are not a sufficient measure of academic achievement. It is unclear if a student who gets an A in non-honors 8th grade Algebra 1 has the academic foundation needed to thrive at TJ. Standardized test scores should be used in the admissions process to objectively assess student readiness.

Similar to how making the SAT optional has hurt UMRs more than any other group, leading to its reinstatement, TJ has no choice but to bring back the test in order to admit qualified students and navigate its way out of the current mess.

Or at least limit enrollment to the right kind of student i.e. those who can afford to purchase the test answers!

If that were really the standard, TJ would be overwhelmingly white. Because the affluent families in FCPS are overwhelmingly white.

"Overwhelmingly" is a bit of a stretch. And not all parents paying for the expensive prep are in FCPS.

The top quintile of households in fairfax is 75% white.
https://statisticalatlas.com/county/Virginia/Fairfax-County/Household-Income

The difference is not inability to pay for test prep, which isn't all that expensive.
Prior to the asians showing up, TJ used to be overwhelmingly white.

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Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.

Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?

Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?

She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.

It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.

How much of the student body was asian?

If then number was anywhere close to 75% then she was addressing a predominantly asian audience with that comment wasn't she?

TJ is majority Asian students, but the message was meant for everyone. All principals sent out a similar message around that time - even Mukai.

The message included the statement that: "we do not reflect the racial composition in FCPS."
Did Mukai say that?

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.

DP. Academic ability is not evenly distributed geographically, socioeconomically or racially.

Privilege is funny like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Lies. Her rhetoric wasn’t “anti Asian”.

There is no discrimination.

And a 0.36% lower ranking isn’t a “sharp decline”.

GTFO.

Why did she keep telling asians to check their privilege?

Did she actually single out Asian people? Or, more likely, are you full of crap?

She was addressing a population that was 75% asian. Who did she THINK she was talking to?
Don't be obtuse.

It wasn't 75% Asian.

She wasn't singling out Asian families and it wasn't disparaging at all.

How much of the student body was asian?

If then number was anywhere close to 75% then she was addressing a predominantly asian audience with that comment wasn't she?

TJ is majority Asian students, but the message was meant for everyone. All principals sent out a similar message around that time - even Mukai.

The message included the statement that: "we do not reflect the racial composition in FCPS."
Did Mukai say that?

He was speaking to the West Springfield high school community - a base school - so not really relevant.

He did say:
"Each of our schools strive to bring awareness to social and emotional issues within our buildings through an equity lens. Every school in the West Springfield Pyramid has an equity lead who collaborates with the principal to make sure staff have the necessary skills to identify and address inequities within our buildings. We have all participated in professional learning on equitable and culturally responsive practices, and we are committed to expanding our learning in order to address issues of racism and equity among our students, staff, and community.

Now more than ever, we heighten our recognition that this is not the time to be silent. In the words of Dr. Brabrand, “We must lean into each other and into the community we’ve built to create places and spaces where all are welcome and seen.” As school leaders, we will continue to lead our students and staff in learning about, valuing, and embracing each other’s differences, while working to change the conditions that allow for injustice.

The diversity of our community makes the West Springfield Pyramid a fulfilling place to live, work, learn, and grow."

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Anonymous wrote:Let's hope this new principal is half as good as the last one! They brought TJ to all new highs. Those will be some tough shoes to fill.

Poor attempt at humor, PP.

Speaking of highs, she did bring TJ up to #1 in the USNWR rankings. I hear some people think that rankings are important?

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.

Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.

DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.

TJ NEVER limited access to only 4 wealthy feeder middle schools. Certain schools have more kids that meet for the TJ Admissions criteria.

It is very clear that schools with more applicants have historically had more admitted students. Of course if a school has less than 10 applicants they would end up with less than 10 admits. No school with 100 or more applicants had less than 10 admitted students. All of the schools that had less than 10 admits had less than 100 applications. Of the list of schools with more than 10 admitted, only 5 of these schools had less than 100 applicants:

https://www.fcag.org/documents/TJadmitbyMS.Classes2017to2021.pdf

Ranking by Year/School with Highest Admission Rate (Excluding "ts" cases):

Jackson 2018: 56.8% (42 admitted out of 74 tested)
Hughes 2021: 44.0% (22 admitted out of 50 tested)
Longfellow 2021: 39.5% (64 admitted out of 162 tested)
Carson 2020: 37.1% (98 admitted out of 264 tested)
Carson 2019: 35.8% (88 admitted out of 246 tested)
Carson 2018: 34.7% (83 admitted out of 239 tested)
Rocky Run 2017: 34.2% (55 admitted out of 161 tested)
Carson 2017: 29.5% (64 admitted out of 217 tested)
Kilmer 2021: 29.4% (35 admitted out of 119 tested)
Longfellow 2020: 29.0% (45 admitted out of 155 tested)
Longfellow 2017: 25.7% (55 admitted out of 214 tested)
Kilmer 2019: 24.5% (38 admitted out of 155 tested)
Longfellow 2018: 24.1% (54 admitted out of 166 tested)
Frost 2019: 24.1% (21 admitted out of 87 tested)
Hughes 2017: 21.2% (18 admitted out of 85 tested)
Frost 2017: 20.0% (21 admitted out of 105 tested)
Frost 2018: 22.3% (23 admitted out of 103 tested)
Frost 2020: 21.6% (22 admitted out of 102 tested)
Frost 2021: 22.5% (20 admitted out of 89 tested)
Kilmer 2017: 22.5% (38 admitted out of 169 tested)
Rocky Run 2021: 22.8% (39 admitted out of 171 tested)
Kilmer 2018: 19.4% (32 admitted out of 165 tested)
Kilmer 2020: 18.8% (25 admitted out of 133 tested)

It's not just volume. The feeders have higher rates of pool & admission -- and lower % FRE. Someone also mentioned that the feeders have special STEM programming that better prepares them for TJ.

class of 2024:

red is best case scenario for TS

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is in the email they had to make sure to talk of the former failed principals fake promotion to gatehouse! Lmao "following Dr. Ann Bonitatibus' promotion to a central office position."

Here is a better article calling out how awful the previous tj principal was pushing racial quotas causing TJ to fall form #1 in the nation to 14.


You are spreading RWNJ misinformation.

There are no quotas.

And TJ went from #5 to #14 out of 25,000 schools on the USNWR rankings. It was only #1 twice in the preceding decade.

It was #1 at least two years in a row before the admission change and then fell to #5, and then #14, and we’ll see where it ends up when this years rankings comes out in April. You and your #fakenews

It was #5 using data from before the admissions change.

And rank #20 in some year in the past.

No. The purported #20 ranking in 2017 that you're referencing was a mistake by a poster in another thread who later corrected their error. TJ's actual 2017 ranking was #6. TJ was always in the top ten over the last decade prior to last year.

Yup. That was my error.

2015 #3
2016 #5
2017 #6
2018 #6
2019 #10
2020 #4 (I believe this was first year that utilized data from bonitatibus' term)
2021 #1
2022 #1
2023 #5
2024 #14 (first year that utilized data from the new admissions process)

The rankings are mostly hairsplitting. No doubt TJ will be #1 again soon. I wouldn't give these much weight or read anything into it.

Of course it'll be number 1 again. First step towards return to meritocracy is this new qualified principal.

You're confused. The old system was rigged. People from a handful of wealthy feeders were buying the test questions. The new system uses merit by selecting the top students from each school!

The top students from each school are not the same thing as the top students from the participating jurisdictions. FCPS replaced merit with a spoils system to appease the resentful parents of less qualified applicants.

Parents are in quandry why their students were even offered admissions when the school rigor is a mismatch to student prerequisite skills. The bottom quarter of current class struggles with poor grades and is constantly in discussions about returning to base school, and staff convincing to stay back and accept low grades as normal.

A review of the prerequisites from the FCPS page state:

"applicants must: (1) have completed a full-year course of Algebra 1, or be currently enrolled in a full-year course of honors-level Algebra 1; applicants attending schools whose curricular programs do not include “honors” Algebra 1 courses must have completed or be enrolled in a full-year course of the highest level of Algebra 1 available at their school l; "

That exception alone reflects there are applicants (and admittees) who are not even in Honors Algebra I in eighth grade. While this exception is "more inclusive," we can all agree it is a step downward from the rigor of the prior process.

It is beyond me why the DEI sycophants here keep trying to assert there has not been a decrease in academic attainment of the incoming freshman classes following the admissions reform.

So you think serving all county residents is DEI? All residents pay for these programs and they should be available to all residents. If there is a problem here, it's that all schools aren't offering comparable math education to their students.

Over 95% of FCPS high school students don’t have access to TJ resources. You aren’t arguing for making them available to all students. You simply want them distributed to a different yet still limited population to align with a left-wing political agenda.

DP. TJ should be accessible to kids from all middle schools, not just those who attend the affluent feeders.

Not really, it should be accessible to "academically qualified" students not just any student. The past four years has shown that kids who are being admitted based on non-academic factors are suffering with poor grades and/or returning to base school. FCPS overwhelmingly wants academically affluent feeders to continue to thrive since that is were most of county's top STEM talent is nurtured. This is similar to how FCPS encourages other athletically affluent feeders.

Can you substantiate these claims with any evidence? Didn't think so... The new process is selecting the very top students from the county instead of those who were able to afford elite prep and memorize the test answers. TJ is a much better place for it.