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

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Anonymous wrote:If you look deeper, you'd notice that in our public school systems, the high-achieving black students are often 1st or 2nd generation immigrants from Africa. on their profile they check "black" just as all the other black students, but in fact they have a very different culture background. The Asians are also often 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. Immigrant families just word harder and they should be rewarded for their hard work.

You are ignorant. The Africans that just came here from Africa are much wealthier on average than the formerly enslaved AAs.

Are you sure? I am a 2nd-generation immigrant from Somalia. My dad and mom came here with nothing.

As the real estate forum proved, there is no such thing as a second generation immigrant.

How so?

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Stop trolling and pretending to be an Asian parent. You're trying to label TJ students as preppers. Kumon is actually not helpful at all to TJ admission and competitive work.

Aren't they? ??

No. At least not more than the white kids. When white people prep (or they call it enrich), nobody labels them anything. This is the true (white) privilege. This is the injustice everyone should fight against, not Asians getting some good results after hard work.

I'm the PP you have responded to, but at least you admitted that TJ students do prep, be it white kids or Asian kids.
You see, I didn't say Asian or White. I said "they" but I guess you believe the school belongs to Asians.

“Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation”. Guess who said that? Alabama white boy Zig Ziglar. So it's OK to prep. We have the white man stamp of approval

You should try that sometimes.. Your success rate could go up too!

It's probably easier for her to leverage George Floyd's death.

Just like it will be easier for you to leech off the struggles and hard work of others, as usual.

You mean struggles with drugs? As to hard work, lol...we all know the truth.
And exactly how other people took advantage of you? Are you suggesting everybody should stop being productive when you are not having a good time?

See, you wouldn't know the struggles because you're leeching off and benefiting from others accomplishments.
Thanks for showing your ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:If you look deeper, you'd notice that in our public school systems, the high-achieving black students are often 1st or 2nd generation immigrants from Africa. on their profile they check "black" just as all the other black students, but in fact they have a very different culture background. The Asians are also often 1st and 2nd generation immigrants. Immigrant families just word harder and they should be rewarded for their hard work.

You are ignorant. The Africans that just came here from Africa are much wealthier on average than the formerly enslaved AAs.

Are you sure? I am a 2nd-generation immigrant from Somalia. My dad and mom came here with nothing.

As the real estate forum proved, there is no such thing as a second generation immigrant.

How so?

There was a whole thread on it

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Anonymous wrote:It’s obscene that Brabrand puts out a system about how there is no room for racism in FCPS a day or two after FCPS makes clear yet again there is next to no room for black students at TJ. What a phony.

https://www.fcps.edu/blog/racism-and-hate-have-no-place-fcps

Is FCPS racist or not racist for accepting all those Indians, East Asians and whites to TJ

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The real dishonesty in this thread is the entire “we didn’t prep!” crowd. Even if your child “didn’t really prep”, they’ve been prepped since they were in preschool. If AAs (and some white people) understood how much time in a given day was dedicated to educational pursuits in these families (itself a herculean practice of disciplined effort and hard work), it wouldn’t be so shocking that they aren’t testing at equal levels. In Singapore, children attend school until 1 pm, attend after-school co-curriculars (instruments or sport), head home for a nap and dinner, followed by “revision” (studying) for at least ONE hour daily. And this is in first grade. The single greatest thing TJ could do to boost applicants is publish the historic daily schedules of their students at age 5. It’s disgraceful how many people are pretending their blessedly smart children picked daisies and watched Octonauts and then poof! ended up in TJ.

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Anonymous wrote:The real dishonesty in this thread is the entire “we didn’t prep!” crowd. Even if your child “didn’t really prep”, they’ve been prepped since they were in preschool. If AAs (and some white people) understood how much time in a given day was dedicated to educational pursuits in these families (itself a herculean practice of disciplined effort and hard work), it wouldn’t be so shocking that they aren’t testing at equal levels. In Singapore, children attend school until 1 pm, attend after-school co-curriculars (instruments or sport), head home for a nap and dinner, followed by “revision” (studying) for at least ONE hour daily. And this is in first grade. The single greatest thing TJ could do to boost applicants is publish the historic daily schedules of their students at age 5. It’s disgraceful how many people are pretending their blessedly smart children picked daisies and watched Octonauts and then poof! ended up in TJ.

This! I wish top colleges would publish this too.

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So trying to engage your children in intelligent conversations when small is now basically considered prepping? Well, we can't have that. Might as well just set up a lottery system to award admission to TJ. That will be the only way to assure equity.

I know perfectly well how my kids got into TJ. They took after their overeducated parents. There's not a reasonable government policy that will ever address this sort of inequity.

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to engage your children in intelligent conversations when small is now basically considered prepping? Well, we can't have that. Might as well just set up a lottery system to award admission to TJ. That will be the only way to assure equity.

I know perfectly well how my kids got into TJ. They took after their overeducated parents. There's not a reasonable government policy that will ever address this sort of inequity.

No! I am all in on the educating-your-own-children train; my parents taught me how to read (at 4) and enrolled me in private school for a gold-standard classical education (complete with mandatory French, German and art history lessons). My kids fared the same; early reading, lots of after-school educating and hours devoted to studying, instruments and visits to museums. The problem is that there exists a group of highly-educated parents who cultivate a school-at-home environment for their offspring at age 2 which they then promptly deny at age 13 when their hardworking children compete for highly coveted spots in secondary schools. Even the language is self-distancing (”intelligent conversations”), and belies an attempt to downplay the time and activities devoted to rigorous thinking on a daily basis; it is at best, soft-pedaled humility, and at worst, misleading, to the rest of the population who didn’t grow up knowing that is “something parents do”.

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And without a TJHSST most of those parents would still devote close to the same amount of energy exposing their kids to things that help them succeed later in school. But we might weed out some of the behavior at the margins that is just bat-sh*t crazy and we'd stop sending a clear signal to black and Hispanic kids that they aren't welcome at the club.

If this School Board is prepared to get rid of school names like Stuart, Lee and Mosby Woods, they sure ought to be prepared to wind down TJ. Otherwise Karen Keys Gamarra is the biggest hypocrite ever to have served on the School Board.

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I have no idea how you could possibly "know" what percentage of parents at TJ are engaging in batshit crazy activities versus "normal" parenting activities. I think you are likely overestimating the percentage, but I don't know the percentage either. Unfortunately, there tend to be a fair number of parents on this forum who promote batshit crazy activities.

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Even TJ alumni know it’s time for either shutting TJ down or major structural reforms. So sick of racist elitists calling this sinkhole of attention the “crown jewel” of FCPS. Enough is enough.

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Anonymous wrote:Even TJ alumni know it’s time for either shutting TJ down or major structural reforms. So sick of racist elitists calling this sinkhole of attention the “crown jewel” of FCPS. Enough is enough.

Are you a TJ alum? I know many who do not feel the way you do.

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Anonymous wrote:Even TJ alumni know it’s time for either shutting TJ down or major structural reforms. So sick of racist elitists calling this sinkhole of attention the “crown jewel” of FCPS. Enough is enough.

Are you a TJ alum? I know many who do not feel the way you do.

+1 I don’t have any children in TJ and this is nonsense. Why would you want to close down a school where hardworking children are challenged? If anything they should open another TJ. I wish more children were as invested in their own education as these kids.

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Anonymous wrote:And without a TJHSST most of those parents would still devote close to the same amount of energy exposing their kids to things that help them succeed later in school. But we might weed out some of the behavior at the margins that is just bat-sh*t crazy and we'd stop sending a clear signal to black and Hispanic kids that they aren't welcome at the club.

If this School Board is prepared to get rid of school names like Stuart, Lee and Mosby Woods, they sure ought to be prepared to wind down TJ. Otherwise Karen Keys Gamarra is the biggest hypocrite ever to have served on the School Board.

Isn't this like the 2,225th time you have posted this on this thread? Get a life dude!

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to engage your children in intelligent conversations when small is now basically considered prepping? Well, we can't have that. Might as well just set up a lottery system to award admission to TJ. That will be the only way to assure equity.

I know perfectly well how my kids got into TJ. They took after their overeducated parents. There's not a reasonable government policy that will ever address this sort of inequity.

No! I am all in on the educating-your-own-children train; my parents taught me how to read (at 4) and enrolled me in private school for a gold-standard classical education (complete with mandatory French, German and art history lessons). My kids fared the same; early reading, lots of after-school educating and hours devoted to studying, instruments and visits to museums. The problem is that there exists a group of highly-educated parents who cultivate a school-at-home environment for their offspring at age 2 which they then promptly deny at age 13 when their hardworking children compete for highly coveted spots in secondary schools. Even the language is self-distancing (”intelligent conversations”), and belies an attempt to downplay the time and activities devoted to rigorous thinking on a daily basis; it is at best, soft-pedaled humility, and at worst, misleading, to the rest of the population who didn’t grow up knowing that is “something parents do”.

You are a moron. I had none of this sh*t and my kids did none of what yours did either. They are at TJ. My second kid gets all his "extra education" from Youtube on his own. Pretty much every TJ family I know (and I know a lot) are like that as well. Cut this holier-than-thou attitude. ALL societies have "haves" and "have-nots". You can't fix that. Why don't each of you bleeding heart liberals adopt a smart black of hispanic kid you cry about, coach them and make sure they get into TJ (which you seem to be obsessed about)?