Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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06/28/2021 17:24

Subject: Official TJ Admissions Decisions Results for the Class of 2025

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Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for this year’s kids, who worked hard and got screwed over. But, this will self correct quickly. Whether officially or unofficially. I know three families in our Western County neighborhood that rented a 1 Br. Apartment in the Herndon MS district for next year and changed the mom and kids residency on paper. Kids will sleep in their own beds and someone will check the mail a couple of times a week. At least one also plans to self id as “mixed race” (mixture of two different subsets of Indians, which cracks me up). And in another case, the kid’s case even found an MD who gave him a neuropsych diagnosis because his parents wrote a check. The parents requested and got an iEP this spring. The parent figure this will help with standardized testing down the line.

And instead of an Indian kid from Carson who stands no chance, suddenly they have a mixed race kid with an IEP from Herndon.

I’ve even heard speculation from parents with SAHMs about parents officially separating for a few months so the kid can qualify as FARMs.

None of their rising 8th graders have been in the Carson building this year anyway so they don’t care that much about switching schools. And, the parents believe that it’s an easy path to TJ. It looks like they are right. They’ll take turns carpooling and do a lot of supplementing, AOPS, etc. at home. And, they have already signed up for one of those Asian style after school schools. They think think it’s a much easier path to TJ than staying at Carson. It’s smart. And since the system is going out of its way to screw over AAPIs who sacrificed to buy into good school Districts, more power to them.

One of these three sets of parents mentioned that a group at their mosque is doing basically the same thing, except in their case it’s RRMS with a temporary transfer to South County.

One thing all these parents have in common? They are donating and organizing for Glen Younkin. I think VA may really flip red this year.

No one things you know of “at least” 5 families gaming the system. I’m sure people do that…but you don’t know 5 of them doing this. Zero chance.

If you already have a kid there, are active in the PTSA s at TJ and Carson and are friends with people who have siblings applying, yes, you do.

No, you don’t.

Are you paying attention to what’s happening with the TJ PTSA? It’s crazy right now. And no one is crazier that parents with one kid in Taj and a second kid who will apply in the next couple years.

Plus, it’s more like three families. One of whom is discussing renting a cheap apartment with two other families.

If you don’t believe parents will do things like transfer their kids after they have sunk years into getting them into TJ, you’re crazy.

This is the results of ignoring the high demands of advanced STEM curriculums by FCPS board for years. Nobody is interested in fighting the traffic to go to TJ if the advanced STEM curriculums are made available at more base high schools. Yet FCPS board is more interested in playing politics than caring the actual learning for tens of thousands of kids in the county. FCPS is one of the worst in the country handing COVID remote learning, they'd rather spend time making political shows targeting TJ who has fame. If FCPS truly care URM, they should provide more support at the elementary schools to encourage them to involve the STEM at early age.

Changing this year's TJ admission process creates more social issues and division.