FCPS TJ Class of 2024 Press Release - Buried; AA Admits "TS" to Mention

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

There is a fee but I am certain that the reductions apply for free and reduced-fee applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

There is a fee but I am certain that the reductions apply for free and reduced-fee applicants.

That's a problem. Same with Ap testing; there are kids who cannot afford the testing but don't get the reduction. Or they don't have parents who care enough to pay, so the kid must suffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The press release notes that TS means 10 or fewer. And that those students are included in the 29 "multiracial/other" category. Impossible for me to know how many "multiracial/other" kids might be considered black (by others, since they chose to identify as multiracial).

The number of black kids at TJ is very small. In my son's class (which has just graduated) there are fewer than 10 black kids (according to my son, at least). Its not a good situation, but the solution is not to shut the school down or have different standards for admission.

**This category includes numbers that are too small for reporting (TS). Those numbers have been included with the Multiracial/Other category. This category includes students who numbered 10 or fewer.

I'm guessing that a fair number of the multiracial/other students are mixed white/Asian.

[Anonymous]

I thought they just took the top applicants and that applicants were color-blind. Therefore the top kids (mostly Asians) get in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

There is a fee but I am certain that the reductions apply for free and reduced-fee applicants.

That's a problem. Same with Ap testing; there are kids who cannot afford the testing but don't get the reduction. Or they don't have parents who care enough to pay, so the kid must suffer.

At least in FCPS the first 6 AP tests are free/paid for by the county.

[Anonymous]

FCPS has been racist. My kid scored higher than every kid in AAP who’s parents I talked to on cogat and the nag and wasnt in the pool. Even the AART was asking the Principal why he wasn’t in the pool. We had to refer him To some committee to get him in. Then once he was in the school did everything they could to try and trick us into pulling him out. As a parent I had to get an attorney just to get the school to stop being extra and racist with my kid. Not saying every school is like this, but there is one in the western part of the county this way. And the people from region 5 will do nothing but try to cover up the BS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought they just took the top applicants and that applicants were color-blind. Therefore the top kids (mostly Asians) get in.

The applicants are color-blind? All of them?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

Yes. The application is $100, and those fees are eliminated in for students on free or reduced price meals.

[Anonymous]

There is no real way to read this press release other than that interest in TJ, and especially among white families, is severely decreasing. Only just over 2500 applicants, and under 600 white applicants. 73% Asian, 6% multiracial (which are mostly Asian). Fewer than 1500 Asian applicants as well, which is a big change.

TJ cannot be getting the best and brightest if the application numbers are decreasing while the population of 8th graders continues to increase. They simply need to make the experience there more interesting to a broader base of students. Where the experience is excellent, it needs to be better promoted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

Yes. The application is $100, and those fees are eliminated in for students on free or reduced price meals.

That's too much for a public school imo.-NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any fees directly associated with applying to TJ? They should be dropped.

Yes. The application is $100, and those fees are eliminated in for students on free or reduced price meals.

That's too much for a public school imo.-NP

I think that's a very reasonable point of view. Surely it discourages many individuals from lower-income families but not FARMS from applying given their relative lack of success in the process.

But the tests are way more expensive than you'd think on a per-test basis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How proud FCPS must be at this moment in our nation's history to bury its press release about the new TJHSST Class of 2024 on its website!

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

As black Americans and their allies work to promote anti-racist change, FCPS kicks the can down the road by offering admission at TJ to so few of the 160 black applicants that the number of black students admitted was reported as "TS" - "too small" to disclose given supposed privacy concerns.

Shame on FCPS for perpetuating inequality. Shame on the School Board members for tolerating it. The protesters circling the White House might want to take a field trip to Alexandria soon.

Why so sensitive? FCPS has been doing "TS" on its data for years. Example: If a middle school has less than 10 students admited to TJ, then they report "TS" for that school. The country is already so divided, please stop posting topics like this!

[Anonymous]

It would be interesting to note how many of the 160 Black applicants were able to qualify as semifinalists - meaning that they met the testing standard and carried at least a 3.0 core GPA in grade 7.

If they didn't cross that threshold, there's nothing the Admissions process as currently constructed can do to help them.

[Anonymous]

If there is a problem with the admit process, it starts with aap. How many gen-Ed kids apply?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How proud FCPS must be at this moment in our nation's history to bury its press release about the new TJHSST Class of 2024 on its website!

https://www.fcps.edu/news/tjhsst-offers-admission-486-students

As black Americans and their allies work to promote anti-racist change, FCPS kicks the can down the road by offering admission at TJ to so few of the 160 black applicants that the number of black students admitted was reported as "TS" - "too small" to disclose given supposed privacy concerns.

Shame on FCPS for perpetuating inequality. Shame on the School Board members for tolerating it. The protesters circling the White House might want to take a field trip to Alexandria soon.

Why so sensitive? FCPS has been doing "TS" on its data for years. Example: If a middle school has less than 10 students admited to TJ, then they report "TS" for that school. The country is already so divided, please stop posting topics like this!

Wow. Who knew that the solution to all our problems was to stick our hands in the sand? There is deep institutional racism within FCPS, just as there are in other institutions. Brabrand is doing a spectacularly bad job at addressing it.